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• Author/Creator:Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
  
• Title:Richard Wright papers, 1927-1978.
  
• Physical Description:72.70 linear feet (142 boxes) + 5 broadside, 6 cold storage, 1 record album storage.
  
• Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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  View a video of the original screen test for Native Son in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: JWJ MSS 3
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 1-142, Broadside folders 2031-2035.
    

  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
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  • Call Number: JWJ MSS 3
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Folders 2036a-2036f
    

   
• Notes:Purchased from Ellen Wright on the Beinecke Fund, 1976, with a later gift from Harper & Row, Inc., 1980.
  
• Organization:Organized into four series: I. Writings, 1933-1977. II. Correspondence, 1934-1975. III. Personal Papers, 1927-1978. IV. Subject Files, 1929-1959.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research. Folders 2037a-f (Cold storage): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies available. Consult Access Services for further information.
• Biographical / Historical note:Richard Wright (1908-1960), journalist, novelist and lecturer, author of Native Son and Black Boy.
  
• Summary:The Richard Wright Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence with other writers such as Nelson Algren, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, Langston Hughes, Gunnar Myrdal and Margaret Walker, photographs, financial and legal documents and printed materials relating to the life and work of Richard Wright. Included are drafts of such works as Black Boy and Native Son, photographs of trips to Spain and Ghana, various items of personal memorabilia such as Wright's Spingarn Medal, and a film of Wright's screen test for the movie version of "Native Son".
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
  
• Cite as:Richard Wright Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the American Literature Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981.
  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
  Beach, Sylvia.
  Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.
  Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992.
  Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000.
  Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970.
  Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946.
  Diop, Alioune Oumy.
  Ellison, Ralph.
  Green, Paul, 1894-1981.
  Guérin, Daniel, 1904-1988.
  Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984.
  Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
  Karpman, Benjamin, 1886-
  Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987.
  Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997.
  Padmore, George, 1902-1959.
  Panassié, Hugues.
  Pivano, Fernanda.
  Quinn, Kerker.
  Replansky, Naomi.
  Sablonière, Margrit de, 1905-1979.
  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
  Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001.
  Soupault, Ré.
  Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
  Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
  Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998.
  Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.
  Wolfe, Bernard, 1915-1985.
  Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
  African American authors--20th century--Archives.
  Authors, American--20th century--Archives.
  Ghana--Pictorial works.
  
• Genre/Form:Audiovisual materials.
  Motion pictures (visual works)
  Photographic prints.