Richard Wright was a 20th century African-American author. Wright's seminal work was Native Son.
When Benny Russell, was told that that the world wasn't ready for a Negro to be known as a writer, in Russell's case, a story about Benjamin Sisko for Incredible Tales, Russell mentioned examples of such writers as Wright, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. (DS9 episode & novelization: Far Beyond the Stars)
External links[]
- Richard Wright (author) article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Richard Wright article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.