Richard Wright

Person · Open Library

Born

1908

Died

1960

Works

107

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Film & TV

Writing · Roxie, Mississippi, USA

His powerful, eloquent work examined the injustices African-Americans face in a white society. He won immediate fame for his first novel, "Native Son" (1940). It tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a young chauffeur whose inarticulate rage over his lot ultimately erupts into violence. "Native Son" was adapted into a play directed by Orson Welles in 1941, filmed in 1951 with Wright himself playing…

Known for

• Richard Wright: Native Son, Author and Activist — Self2009
• Native Son — Bigger Thomas1951

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1943-07-28

Active to

2008-09-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

28,351

Total plays

663,116

Richard William Wright (born 28th July, 1943 London, UK - 15th September, 2008) was the keyboardist for the rock band Pink Floyd. He, along with Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Syd Barrett formed the original lineup of Pink Floyd and was an extremely important part of the early Pink Floyd sound. He made several key contributions but perhaps his best known work with Pink Floyd is The Great Gig In The Sky. He was fired from the band in 1979 due to both personal problems and relationship problems w

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

   · 1977 · cited 61,795x

2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 58,229x

3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

   · 2009 · cited 46,840x

4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

   · 2009 · cited 46,289x

5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,733x

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Quotes

• “The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.”
• “But the moment he makes the attempt his words falter, for he is confronted and defied by the inexplicable array of his own emotions. Emotions are subjective and he can communicate them only when he clothes them in objective guise; and how can he ever be so arrogant as to know when he is dressing up the right emotion in the right Sunday suit?”
• “But, because the blacks were so close to the very civilization which sought to keep them out, because they could not help but react in some way to its incentives and prizes, and because the very tissue of their consciousness received its tone and timbre from the strivings of that dominant civilization, oppression spawned among them a myriad variety of reactions, reaching from outright blind rebellion to sweet, other-worldly submissiveness.”
• “I sensed, too, that the Southern scheme of oppression was but an appendage of a far vaster and in many respects more ruthless and impersonal commodity-profit machine.”
• “It was this intolerable sense of feeling and understanding so much, and yet living on a plane of social reality where the look of a world which one did not make or own struck one with a blinding objectivity and tangibility, that made me grasp the revolutionary impulse in my life and the lives of those about me and far away.”
• “But he is product of a dislocated society; he is a dispossessed and disinherited man; he is all of this, and he lives amid the greatest possible plenty on earth and he is looking and feeling for a way out.”

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Key facts

Born

Richard Nathaniel Wright , ( 1908-09-04 ) September 4, 1908, Plantation, Roxie, Mississippi , U.S.

Died

November 28, 1960 (1960-11-28) (aged 52), Paris , France

Occupation

Novelist poet essayist short story writer

Period

1938–60

Genre

Drama, fiction, non-fiction, autobiography

Notable works

Uncle Tom's Children , Native Son , Black Boy , The Outsider

Spouse

Dhimah Rose Meidman ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1939 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1940 ) ​ Ellen Poplar ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ) ​

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Wikidata facts

Image

Richard Wright.jpg

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