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September 4, 1908 Richard Nathainel Wright was bornIn 1936, his story ‘Big Boy Leaves Home’ was published in ‘New Caravan’ and the same year he joined the National Negro Congress and became the chairman of the South Side Writer's GroupBlack Boy Got PublishedWright moves to Paris!Native SonRichard Wright First DaughterPagan Spain is published and White Man Listen is published.Richard graduates collegeRichard left the band after The Wall tour.Wright later acted as an arranger to Waters and Gilmour's compositions. He began to contribute less towards the end of the 1970sRejoined the band as a session playerBecame a full member for the Division BellAfter rejoining Waters, Mason and Gilmour as Pink Floyd for Live 8he became part of Gilmour's regular solo touring band, singing occasional lead on songs such as "Arnold Layne", before his deathA collection of Wright's travel writings was published by Mississippi University Press in 2001Ellen Wright, who died on April 6, 2004, aged 92, was the executrix of the Richard Wright Estate and, in that capacity, she sued a biographer in Wright v. Warner Books, IncIn April 2009, Wright was featured on a U.S. postage stamp. The 61-cent, two-ounce rate stamp is the 25th installment of the literary arts series and features a portrait of Wright in front of snow-swept tenements on the South Side of Chicago, a scene that recalls the setting of Native SonIn 2010, Wright was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of FameIn 2012, the Historic Districts Council and the Historic Landmarks Preservation Commission, in collaboration with the Fort Greene Association
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