As James A. Page observed in
English Journal, Wright was "powerful enough to break out of the narrow compartment previously occupied by Black writers. . . . He made sense, he handled his themes with authority, expressed himself with power and eloquence, and was entitled to the place he had won in the literary firmament of the Depression years. . . . That Wright was the most impressive literary talent yet produced by negro America was rarely disputed in his time. . . . His name was bracketed with the small handful of America's foremost writers." According to
Dictionary of Literary Biography contributor Edward D. Clark, "Any serious discussion of the development of black fiction in modern American literature must include Richard Wright. He was the first black novelist to describe the plight of the urban masses and the first to present this material in the naturalistic tradition.
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