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For a bibliography of Wright criticism, go here.


Currently the bibliographic information contains only the date of original publication. Hopefully I will soon have a more complete list of Wright's works, including a full publishing history of the major texts.

 

Novels and Collections

listed chronologically

Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas. New York: Harper, 
	1938.
Native Son. New York: Harper, 1940.
Uncle Tom's Children: Five Long Stories. New York: 
	Harper, 1940.
Native Son (The Biography of a Young American): A Play in 
	Ten Scenes. With Paul Green. New York: Harper, 1941.
Bright and Morning Star. New York: International Publishers, 
	1941.
12 Million Black Voices. With photo-direction by Edwin 
	Rosskam. New York: Viking, 1941.
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth. New York: 
	Harper, 1945.
Cinque Uomini. Milan: Mondadori, 1951.
The Outsider. New York: Harper, 1953.
Savage Holiday. New York: Avon, 1954.
Black Power: A Record of Reaction in a Land of Pathos. New
	York: Harper, 1954.
The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference. 
	Cleveland: World, 1956.
Pagan Spain. New York: Harper, 1957.
White Man, Listen!. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957.
The Long Dream. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957.
Eight Men. Cleveland: World, 1961.
Lawd Today. New York: Walker, 1963.
American Hunger. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
Richard Wright Reader. Ed. Ellen Wright and Michel Fabre. 
	New York: Harper and Row, 1978.
Early Works: Lawd Today!, Uncle Tom's Children, Native Son.
	New York: Library of America, 1991.
Later Works: Black Boy (American Hunger), The Outsider. New 
	York: Library of America, 1991.

Stories


"Superstition." Abbott's Monthly Magazine 2 (Apr 1931): 45-47,
	64-66, 72-73.
"The Man Who Lived Underground: Two Excerpts from a Novel." Accent
	2 (Spring 1942): 170-76.
"The Man Who Lived Underground." Cross-Section: A Collection of New
	American Writing. Edwin Seaver, ed. New York: L.B. Fischer, 1944:
	58-102.

Poetry

"A Red Love Note." Left Front 1 (January-February 1934): 3.
"Rest for the Weary." Left Front 1 (January-February 1934.): 3.
"Child of the Dead and Forgotten Gods." The Anvil 5 (March-April 1934): 30.
"Strength." The Anvil 5 (March-April 1934): 20.

"Everywhere Burning Waters Rise." Left Front 1 (May-June 1934): 9.
"I Have Seen Black Hands." New Masses 11 (26 June 1934): 16.
"Obsession." Midland Left 2 (February 1935): 14.
"Rise and Live." Midland Left 2 (February 1935): 13-14.
"I Am a Red Slogan." International Literature 4 (April 1935): 35.

"Ah Feels It in Mah Bones." International Literature 4 (April 1935): 80.
"Red Leaves of Red Books." New Masses 15 (30 April 1935): 6.
"Spread Your Sunrise!" New Masses 16 (2 July 1935): 26.

"Between the World and Me." Partisan Review 2 (July-August 1935): 18-19.
"Transcontinental." International Literature (January 1936): 52-57.
"Hearst Headline Blues." New Masses 19 (12 May 1936): 14.
"Old Habit and New Love." New Masses 21 (15 December 1936): 29.
"We of the Streets." New Masses 23 (13 April 1937): 14.
"Red Clay Blues." New Masses 32 (1 August 1939): 14 (With Langston Hughes).
"King Joe." New York Amsterdam Star News 18 October 1941.
Haiku (eight poems). Ebony 16 (February 1961): 92-93.
Haiku (four poems). In Richard Wright: A Biography, by Constance Webb (New York, 1968): 393-394.
Untitled poem. In Richard Wright: A Biography, by Constance Webb (New York, 1968): 357.

 

More to Come.