Education
Wright had little formal education. He left school for the last time in the mid-1920s
Wright had little formal education. He left school for the last time in the mid-1920s
The Ethics Of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch (1937)
Introduction to Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945)
I Choose Exile (1951)
White Man, Listen! (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1957)
Blueprint for Negro Literature (New York City, New York) (1937)
The God that Failed (contributor) (1949)
Uncle Tom's Children (New York: Harper, 1938)
"The Man Who Was Almost a Man" (New York: Harper, 1939)
Native Son (New York: Harper, 1940)
The Outsider (New York: Harper, 1953)
Savage Holiday (New York: Avon, 1954)
The Long Dream (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1958)
Eight Men (Cleveland and New York: World, 1961)
Lawd Today (New York: Walker, 1963)
Rite of Passage (New York: Harper Collins, 1994)
A Father's Law (London: Harper Perennial, 2008)
How "Bigger" Was Born; Notes of a Native Son (New York: Harper, 1940)
12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States (New York: Viking, 1941)
Black Boy (New York: Harper, 1945)
Black Power (New York: Harper, 1954)
The Color Curtain (Cleveland and New York: World, 1956)
Pagan Spain (New York: Harper, 1957)
Letters to Joe C. Brown (Kent State University Libraries, 1968)
American Hunger (New York: Harper & Row, 1975)
His tumultuous childhood was further complicated by his mother's frequent illnesses. She suffered a stroke in 1919, and in 1920 Wright was sent to his grandmother's home in Jackson, where he remained until 1925.