Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius - Softcover

Walker, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156743004X ISBN 13: 9781567430042

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2000

Synopsis

The hardcover publication of this work resulted in a landmark case, Ellen Wright v. Warner Books Inc. and Margaret Walker. The court ruled in favor of Walker and Warner Books Inc. in a precedent setting opinion. The court's decision, as well as the opinion of the presiding judges is included in this volume.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Walker is the author of nine books, including the bestseller, Jubilee. Her book of poetry, For My People, which won the Yale Younger Poets Competition in 1942, is considered an American classic.

From Publishers Weekly:

An angry and deeply ambivalent man emerges from this passionately committed profile of novelist-essayist Richard Wright (1908-1960). In Walker's estimation, the author of Native Son and Black Boy hated black women and treated the two white women he married sadistically. Self-hatred pushed Wright to conceive of himself as "a white American with a black skin," even as he plunged into Pan-Africanism, Marxism and Freud for an anchor to his fractured self. Walker ( Jubilee ) and Wright were friends in the 1930s when they both worked on the WPA Writers' Project in Chicago. Combining biography, criticism and memoir, this excellent, flesh-and-blood portrait gets closer to the inner man than any previous volume. The author's claim for Wright as a Southern Gothic writer as well as an Afro-American one is buttressed by her intense account of his formative years in rural Mississippi. She also limns his bohemian life in New York and Paris, where he wrote eight books, unjustly neglected today. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 156743004X
• ISBN 13: 9781567430042
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464