Richard Wright: The Life and Times - Softcover

"The strength of Richard Wright is [Rowley's] painstaking research. Rowley . . . has a daunting dedication to primary sources and her documentation is meticulous."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"A welcome and illuminating work . . . [Rowley] does an outstanding job placing Wright within the social and political contexts of the many worlds through which he moved . . . Rich and revealing."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
A full-scale biography of the author of Black Boy and Native Son that is "thorough and engrossing from the first page to the last" --"The Washington Post Book World"
"The strength of Richard Wright is ÝRowley's¨ painstaking research. Rowley . . . has a daunting dedication to primary sources and her documentation is meticulous."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"A welcome and illuminating work . . . ÝRowley¨ does an outstanding job placing Wright within the social and political contexts of the many worlds through which he moved . . . Rich and revealing."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
A full-scale biography of the author of Black Boy and Native Son that is "thorough and engrossing from the first page to the last" --"The Washington Post Book World"
0;Absorbing.1;2; "New Yorker"
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0;Thorough and engrossing from the first page to the last1;2;Jake Lamar, "Washington"" Post Book World" "" "" -- Jame Lamar "Washington Post Book World"

0;A welcome and illuminating work . . . [Rowley] does an outstanding job. . . . Rich and revealing.1;2;Megan Harlan, "San Francisco Chronicle"
-- Megan Harlan "San Francisco Chronicle"

0;A magnificent biography, subtle and insightful. . . . Rowley writes with style and grace, and her research on Wright is prodigious.1;2;Howard Zinn, "The Week"
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-- Howard Zinn "The Week"

0;Splendid. . . . "Richard Wright" is well written, prodigiously researched, and nicely paced, a compelling evocation of the man, his craft, and the different worlds through which he moved.1;2;Michael J. Ybarra, "Wall Street Journal"
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-- Michael J. Ybarra "Wall Street Journal"

0;In her excellent, entirely readable "Richard Wright," Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright7;s very powerful story.1;2;Darryl Pinckney, "New York"" Review of Books"
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-- Darryl Pinckney "New York Review of Books"

"Splendid. . . . Richard Wright is well written, prodigiously researched, and nicely paced, a compelling evocation of the man, his craft, and the different worlds through which he moved."-Michael J. Ybarra, Wall Street Journal -- Michael J. Ybarra "Wall Street Journal"

"In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story." -- Darryl Pinckney "New York Review of Books"

Hazel Rowley is the author of, most recently, Tete-a-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, which has been translated into twelve languages. During the writing of this book, she was a fellow at the Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard, a Rockefeller fellow at the University of Iowa, and a Bunting fellow at Radcliffe College, Harvard University.