- Full Name: Richard Nathaniel Wright
- Born: September 04, 1908 in Roxie, Mississippi
- Died: November 28, 1960 in Paris, France
- Father: Nathan Wright, illiterate share cropper (left family when Richard was 5)
- Mother: Ella Wright, school teacher
- Journalist, Author, Poet
- Moved from Mississippi to Arkansas to Tennessee to Chicago
- Chicago 1932: Become member of Communist Party
- 1937: Moved to New York
- 1944: Quietly left Communist Party
- After WWII, moved to Paris to live permanently as an American ex-Patriot