Richard Wright
1908–1960 (age 52)
author/writer
Biography
Richard Wright (1908–1960) transformed his early years in the American South into a searing body of work that confronted racial injustice, guiding millions through novels such as Native Son and Black Boy with unsparing honesty.
He spent his later years in Paris, continuing to write and to reflect on the storms his homeland still faced before being laid to rest at the Crématorium-columbarium du Père-Lachaise, leaving an enduring testament that still moves readers today.