Cross Section 1945: A Collection of New American Writing
New York: L.B. Fischer, (1945).
Price: $45.00
Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Edwin Seaver. Fine in very good, spine-tanned dustwrapper with some light soiling and a few small chips to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels. Contributors include Richard Wright, Edita Morris, Jesse Stuart, Gladys Schmitt, Millen Brand, Hilde Abel, Jane Bowles, Morton Fineman, Sanora Babb, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Norman Rosten.
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Richard Wright
birth name: Richard Nathaniel Wright
born: 9/4/1908
died: 11/28/1960
nationality: USA
Biography
Novelist and short-story writer who was among the first American black writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore