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BIBLIOGRAPHY

FURTHER READING CRITICAL WORKS

Abcarian, Richard, ed. Richard Wright's Native Son: A Critical Handbook. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1970. Includes several good reviews and essays.

Baker, Houston A., Jr., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Native Son: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972. Includes some of the most controversial essays on Native Son.

Bakish, David. Richard Wright. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1973.

Brignano, Russell Carl. Richard Wright: An Introduction to the Man and His Works. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. Organized thematically.

Fabre, Michel. The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright. New York: William Morrow, 1973. The most comprehensive biography of Wright.

Felgar, Robert. Richard Wright. Boston: Twayne, 1980. Sees Bigger as a brutalized and degraded character.

Gayle, Addison. Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980. Uses newly discovered documents.

Kinnamon, Keneth. The Emergence of Richard Wright: A Study in Literature and Society. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972. Emphasizes the influences of Wright's social and political milieu on his literary career.

McCall, Dan. The Example of Richard Wright. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1969. Emphasizes the nightmarish elements of Native Son.

Macksey, Richard, and Frank E. Moorer, eds. Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984. Includes more recent essays than other collections.

Ray, David, and Robert M. Farnsworth, eds. Richard Wright: Impressions and Perspectives. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1973. Includes letters and personal remembrances as well as critical comments.

Reilly, John M., ed. Richard Wright: The Critical Reception. New York: Burt Franklin, 1978. Compiles contemporary reviews of all Wright's books.

AUTHOR'S OTHER MAJOR WORKS

For a complete bibliography that includes Wright's poetry, short stories in magazines, essays, book reviews, prefaces to other writers' books, journalism, and correspondence, see Michel Fabre's biography.

1938 Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas

1941 Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States

1944 Black Boy

1953 The Outsider

1954 Savage Holiday

1954 Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos

1956 The Color Curtain

1956 Pagan Spain

1957 White Man, Listen!

1958 The Long Dream

1961 Eight Men

1963 Lawd Today

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