Richard Wright once said "No more fiendish punishment could be devised... Than one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed by the members thereof..."(qtd in Kramer 419). Richard Wright wanted to inform Americans about the poor conditions of African Americans, in a society that didn't recognize neither their mistreatment nor their potential. Wright is a naturalist writer known for Native Son, and Black Boy. Black Boy is an autobiographical book and Native Son is about how African Americans were trapped in their own society. Through his plots, characters, and conflicts, Richard Wright revealed the struggle of African Americans in the pre-civil rights era. In his way, he became a strong voice for equal rights and a significant American author.
             Richard Wright, one of the most amazing African American authors in history was born September 4, 1908 in Roxie Mississippi. His mother Ella was a schoolteacher, and his father Nathan was an illiterate sharecropper, he was also a grandson of slaves. In 1913 the whole family moved to Memphis Tennessee. Before living there for a year "Nathan deserts them for another woman and Ella works as a cook to support the family" (Gatser 1). In September 1915, Wright went to school at Howe institute. His mother got very sick in early 1016 and his grandmother came to care for the family for a while. After she left Richard and his brother Alan had to live in an orphanage until they could live with Ella and her parents in Jackson, Mississippi.
             Wright entered school in 1918 but had to leave because of his mother's poor health conditions. He had to earn money to support his family. He delivers newspapers and briefly works with a traveling insurance salesman. He would also run errands for whites. During the winter, Richard writes his first short story, "The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre," it was published in 1924 in the Jackson Southern Regis...