ABSTRACT
Richard Wright was born in Mississippi and, after living in many urban areas of the Deep South, ran away from home. Like so many Negroes of his time, Wright migrated to Chicago. His first best seller, Native Son, deals with the problem of the urban southern Negroes living in the north. Largely self-taught, Wright, a strong protest writer, deeply felt the problems of American Negroes and sought active solutions, first by joining the Communist Party and finally by leaving this country and becoming a citizen of France, where he died.
