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eos WY 1056-41674 fo ~ ., ¥ along the gutted road 1¢ dawned upon him that be needed an education. And then, whether digging @itches or clerking in the post effice, he devoured the wa) t @®ontents af mawaeneanere and masasinan me hanks that ames hin ene _ 8 Sere Se we Se pey Se ee ag 2 ee as on va Pee a advised the writer that the subject had beer employe t A on a Foderal Writers’ Project from January 3, 1936, to May 17, 1939, when he resigned to accept private employment. At this time subject was residing at 805 Baint Bicholas Avenue, Bew York City. "The Best Plays of 1940 and 1941" by BOENS MANTLE included the wot ject's play, "Bative Son", which was produced from the subject's novel by the saxe asxe, Mr. BESOKS ATEINSOH in the New York Times had the fecllowing to eay about the subject's play, “Native Son": "In the drama Mr. GREEK and Mr. WEIGHT work in a pore objective style, Without the subjective background their defense of Bigger Thocae's ghastly crime in the court scene sounds like generalised pleading. It lacks the stinging enlightment of the last third of Mr, WRIGHT's novel. But that completes this column's bill of exceptions to the biggest Aperican drara of the season.® fhe novel, “Pwelve Million Black Voices", which was written by the wubject, was published by the Viking Press in New York City in October, 1941, and this book is divided into four parts: (1) Our Strange Birth; (2) Inheritors of Slavery; (3) Death on the City Pavements: and (4) Men in the Neking. In the foreword, Mr. WRIGHT etates"while this novel purports to render a broad picture of the processes of negro life in the United States, intentionally it does act include in its considerations those areas of negro life which comprise the so- called ‘talented tenth’ or the ieclated islands ef mulatto leadership which are etill te be foun? in many parts of the South or the growing and influential negro middle class professional and business men of the North who have, for the past twenty yeerse or more, formed a sort of liaison corpse between the whites and the blacks". The reference letter reflected that on Page 143 of the abcve-wmentioned novel, there was material that appeared to be seditious in nature; and for the Denefit of the Bureau, the above-mentioned page is being quoted in fulls - Our lives we have been catapulted into arenas where, hed we thought consciously “of invading them, we woulé have hung back. A sense of constant change has stolen etiettly-into our lives and has become operative in our personalities as a lav of living. "There are millions of us and we are moving in all directions, Al!