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Richard Nathaniel Wright — Part 2

90 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Richard Nathaniel Wright · 90 pages OCR'd
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|” FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION. THis Gabe ORIGINATED AT WEW YORK WY wren. 1000-41674 VH DATE WHEN MAGE PERIOD REPORT MADE BY 6Asle {6/512 14/4b BI’ + RICHARD KATHANIEL WR *. + SYNOPSISOF FACTS: Subject, negro, resides 82 Washington Place, NYC. 4. ' |. Free lance writer, presently working on novel..,cEiCY eS: “ye Left U.S. for France, May 1946, with return segs. REC tS pos tbl bo a ft = for Sept. 1946. Reason for trip unknown. Borme?‘. bebe 9/4/08, Natchez, Miss. Broke with CP due to BY failure to recognize ani deal with problems in. at: kdty ®t \ ~ Pe - > Bureau File 100-257464 | Letters to Bureau, 2/26/45 and 4/17/45 Bureau letter to SACs, #28, 1946 Series, 3/12/46 Bureau letter, 5/7/45 DETAILS: The records of Selective Service Board $178, 44 Court Street, ; - Brooklyn, New York, reflected that as of March 21, 1946, the subject's address was apartment 3F, &2 Washington Place, New York City, where he resided with his wife. This file also contained s letter dated April 14, 1946, wherein WRIGHT advised he planned to leave the United © 4 States on May 1, 1946, for a period of three months in France, The reason {| for this trip was not given in his letter. - ce - 6 pretext telephone call was mad it Was asce & ) sub jec © was yy! "Black Boy", At the present time he is writing a novel, but the completion y, : date was unknowm. It was learned that the subject had left the United States _ for France around May 1, 1946, and it was beliewed he would return to this country in September of this year. The reason for the subject's trip was not ; ey fae AG le pes IN THESE @Pacrs hig en, soteam ¥ D ! pe SHERCIN IS UNCLASSIOCY oe Ye Were gg FT pte ZEST EES = 5 ee ’ \ Fo~OO34 a he ts \ t ropes . . oo one . on eye . fs, 7 . ‘e
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