Byline, Richard Wright: Articles from the Daily Worker and New Masses

A writer perhaps best known for the revolutionary works Black Boy andNative Son, Richard Wright also worked as a journalist during one of the most explosive periods of the 20th century. From 1937 to 1938, Wright turned out more than two hundred articles for theDaily Worker--the newspaper that served as the voice of the American Communist Party.Byline, Richard Wright, edited by Earle V. Bryant, assembles more than one hundred of those articles plus two of Wright’s essays fromNew Masses, revealing to readers the early work of an American icon.