Richard Wrights Social And Literary Education Continues As He Matures As A Writer In The North
Posted by Goody on 06/17/08 in Arts and Entertainment
During the Great Depression Richard Wright changed several other jobs. For following the Wall Street crash which ushered in the depression, the volume of mails dropped, Wright’s working hours were thus cut back considerably before he finally lost his postal job. He then began work, in 1930, on a novel, Cesspool, about black life in Chicago that was published posthumously as Lawd Today! reflecting his experience in the post office.
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