1. Richard Nathaniel Wright
By : Alfonso M. Velazquez

2. Contributions to Harlem Renaissance
His work has had enormous influence on the writers who followed him and on American thinking about the African-American experience.

3. Biographical information
Born Sept
On Rucker's Plantation
between Roxie and Natchez, Mississippi
Born and raised in the Deep South in the early years of the 20th century and living later in Chicago and New York City.

4. Childhood
When Wright was five, his father left the family and his mother was forced to take domestic jobs away from the house.
live with Wright's maternal grandparents
Wright moved from school to school, graduating from the ninth grade at the Smith Robertson Junior High School in Jackson as the class valedictorian in June 1925

5. Family son of Nathaniel Wright, an illiterate sharecropper
Mother Ella Wilson, a schoolteacher
Grandmother, Margaret Bolden Wilson , staunchly religious and illiterate

6. his experiences and the experiences of those around him

7. Major accomplishments
Native son 1940, the first best selling novel be a black African-American writer. And the first book-of-the-month club selection by an African-American writer.
Help start New Challenge Magazine

8. Challenges and hardships
He face the climate of hate against Negroes was blatantly cruel. The ugliness and pain would come out in the works of Wright.
His staunchly religious and illiterate grandmother who kept books out of the house a thought fiction was the work of the devil. (Wright kept any aspirations he had to be a writer to himself)

9. Who stood in his way
Whites to accept black emancipation America communism in the 1930 and 1940’s

10. Impact on future generations
Changed the landscape and made it possible for African –American writers

11. Who was influenced by Richard
Allowed later writers to do the same (his refusal to give the reading public what it had up to this time demand of the African American writer.
(without concern for explaining his obscure meaning.)

12. Critics views of his work
New and daringly character

13. Died November 25, 1960
Died at night in Paris from a heart attack. He was fifty two years old.

14. Standing patiently, The horse grants the snowflakes A home on his back

15. A spring sky so clear That you feel you are seeing Into tomorrow

16. Burning out its time, And timing its own burning, One lonely candle.

17. With a twitching nose A dog reads a telegram On a wet tree trunk.

18. My cigarette glows
Without my lips touching it, -
A steady spring breeze.

19. The day is so long That even noisy sparrows Fall strangely silent