"Richard Wright: A Webpage"
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~cuff/wright/
This web site is pretty limited in its offerings, though its presentation is straightforward. The two most useful resources are the year-by-year chronology of Wright's life (including both professional and personal details) and the bibliography of literary criticism of Wright's work. The bibliography is listed alphabetically rather than by topic, so it is most useful if you already have a specific critic in mind. At the same time, most of the criticism is about Native Son and this site does a good job of including both books and articles. Finally, the listing is one of the most up-to-date, current through Fall 1998.
"Africana.com: Richard Wright"
http://www.africana.com/tt_063.htm
The encyclopedia, Africana.com, provides a detailed biography of Richard Wright's life as well as a commentary on the critical reception of his work. The "Archive" section of the site provides a few articles from Wright's contemporaries, back when Native Son was published.
"Wright, Richard - To Blot It All Out"
http://www.findarticles.com/m2342/1_32/54019326/p1/article.jhtml
Style is the literary journal published by Northern Illinois University. Among their many articles, this one (written byDamon Marcel Decoste in Spring 1998), will be of interest to students who are studying the politics of the novel. This article also references other critical works that the reader may find useful and it provides a good overview of contemporary discussion on the novel.
"The Mississippi Writers Page"
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/wright_richard/
The University of Mississippi sponsors a website dedicated to those literary figures who are also native Mississippians. The biography of Wright is rather short but the long list of critical resources (both on- and off-line) is pretty valuable. This site, unlike others, is more focused on listing the most important critical works, as opposed to simply listing everything that the web has to offer.
"The Richard Wright Papers"
http://webtext.library.yale.edu/sgml2html/beinecke.wright.sgm.html
This site is a link to Yale University's "Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library." As it turns out, Yale University has a hefty load of Richard Wright's letters, notes and unpublished essays. For those of us who do not have access to the University collection, Yale has a descriptive listing of the most important of their holdings. This would be most useful not for a standard academic project, but perhaps for a report that focuses on Wright's personal life and political views, rather than the novel.
