{"product_id":"richard-wright-the-life-and-times","title":"Richard Wright: The Life and Times","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRichard Wright: The Life and Times\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHazel Rowley\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780805047769\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHenry Holt and Co.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2001\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe first full-scale biography of the author of Black Boy and Native Son -- written with the dramatic drive of a novel. \u003cbr\u003e\"Writing,\" Richard Wright once said, \"is my way of being a free man.\" In this authoritative and engaging biography, Hazel Rowley chronicles Wright's extraordinary journey from a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to international renown as a writer, fiercely independent thinker, and outspoken critic of racism. \u003cbr\u003eThe child of the fundamentalist South with an eighth-grade education, a self-taught intellectual in the working-class Communist Party of the 1930s, a black man married to a white woman, and an expatriate in France after World War II, Wright was always an outsider. Skillfully interweaving quotations from Wright's writings, Rowley portrays a man who transced the times in which he lived and sought to reconcile opposing cultures in his work. She draws on recently discovered material to shed new light on Wright's relationships with Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and others, and on his self-imposed exile in France (widely blamed for his so-called decline as a writer). In this lively, finely crafted narrative, Wright -- passionate, complex, courageous, and flawed -- comes vibrantly to life.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Henry Holt and Co.","offers":[{"title":"Richard Wright: The Life and Times | Hazel Rowley | Hardcover | 9780805047769 | Used: Very Good | Biography 1602558","offer_id":50722533605634,"sku":"1602558","price":34.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71PaW1bsq_L.jpg?v=1791835700","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/richard-wright-the-life-and-times","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}