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It appeared frow Subject's contacts with his Local Board that his interest in the problem of the Negro has become almost an obsession and 4t was said that he apparently overlooks the fact that his ow rise te success refutes many of his own statements regarding the impossibility of the Negrots improving his personal position. bx ee From all the information concerning Subject in publications and according to information from Informants in the New York Office, Subject de continuing his activities as a writer. In addition to his better knom books he has also been engaged in the writing of skits and stories, most of which concem the Negro. The publicity which has been received by Subject WRIGHT is typified by the rather lengthy review of his life appearing in the volume "Current Blogrephy,gl940" p published by the H. W. Wilsen Company. volume states that BICHADY ICIGHT, Author, was born September 4, 1908 ent his present address ie care of HARPER & BROTHERS, 49 East 33rd Street, New York City. It refers to hip as a brilliant young Negro writer whose collection of short stories "Uncle Tom's Children" won a §500 prise competition in 1938 andi whose book “Native Son" was the March, 1940 selection of the Book-of-the-Honth Club. Much of the article contains a ’ review of the character and theme of that book. Tha 14fe af RICHARD WRIGHT, bacinning with his birth. Sentesber é ere ale Of Rit SAL. ale oL2 SS; ies P43 1908,on a plantation 25 miles from Hatches, Mississippi, is summarised, as follows: His father, NATHAN WRIGHT, was @ will worker and his mother, _£ -IGHT, @ country school teacher. The family was continually on the wre Oh s education was very much neglected. When his mother was stricken With petalysis during the first world war, the Subject wes gent to an mole's house to live. WRIGHT is quoted as having ststed that he did so much fighting, lying and achool-euttineg that he was sent back to his grandwothar who pre- ose, See ee ee = Se ees a dicted that he would end on the gallows. ‘We was = put, in a 7th Day Adventist