July 25, 2008
Richard Wright and the Agony Over Integration
Richard Wright's literary career begins with a lynching and ends with a serial murderer. "Big Boy Leaves Home," the 1936 story that leads off Wright's first book, Uncle Tom's Children (1938), renders the vicious mob-execution of a young black man falsely accused of rape. A Father's Law, Wright's last novel, left unfinished at his unexpected death in 1960 and published this year on the centennial of his birth, centers on a murderer terrorizing the Chicago suburb of Brentwood Park.
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