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NOVELISTS > novelist, short-story writer > Richard Wright
Blues, spirituals, and...
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Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.
Source: Blueprint for Negro Literature, 1971.
-- Richard Wright, (Sep 4 1908-1960), US novelist, short-story writer; He was among the first black American writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel Native Son, 1940.