Harold Bloom, editor, Richard Wright (Modern Critical Views), Chelsea, 1987.
A collection of essays on all of Wright's work, including an analysis of Black Boy's place in the black literary tradition.
Edward D Clark, "Richard Wright," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 76' Afro-American Writers, 1940 1955, Gale Research, 1988, pp 199-221.
Clark describes Wright's position in the history of American literature as that of a father to the post
World War II black novel.
Ralph Ellison, "The World and the Jug,"_ in The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison, edited by John F Callahan, Modem Library, 1995, pp. 155-88.
Ellison's powerful rejoinder to Irving Howe's commentary in "Black Boys and Native Sons"
Michel Fabre, The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright, William Morrow, 1973.
A lengthy biography, translated from French, that evaluates Wright as a "representative man".....
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