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...Rowley, who has written what has been called the definitive biography on Wright, argued that Wright’s later works had substantial literary merit, but that their value was overlooked because the tone often expressed in his works clashed with the patriotism espoused during the McCarthy...
...Richard Wright has been systematically finalized and reduced,” said Rowley, who is also a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research...
Although he remained a prolific writer, his popularity and reputation suffered when he left America for France in 1947 in an attempt to escape racism, Rowley said...
Many American blacks felt he had abandoned their community and also took issue with how he portrayed it. He was also criticized for marrying a white woman, Rowley said...
...Rowley, who grew up in England and Australia but now lives in Cambridge, said she was initially reluctant as a white woman to write about a black man. She said she felt there were many potential hazards involved in doing so, including the question of whether she could understand Wright’s life...