Editing Richard Wright (author) (section)

==Personal life==
In August 1939, with [[Ralph Ellison]] as best man,<ref>[[Hazel Rowley|Rowley, Hazel]] (2001), ''Richard Wright: The Life and Times'', University of Chicago Press, p. 177.</ref> Wright married Dhimah Rose Meidman,<ref>[http://www.nathanielturner.com/richardwright3.htm "Richard N. Wright (1908–1960), Bio-Chronology"].  {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223061206/http://www.nathanielturner.com/richardwright3.htm |date=February 23, 2019 }}, ''Chicken Bones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes''.</ref> a modern dance teacher of Russian Jewish ancestry. The marriage ended a year later.

On March 12, 1941, Wright married Ellen Poplar (née Poplowitz),<ref>Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (eds), [https://books.google.com/books?id=E_vRLcgEdGoC&dq=%22ellen+poplowitz%22+henry+louis+gates&pg=PA555 ''Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography''], Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 555.</ref><ref name=family>{{Cite web|url=http://dailyfreeman.com/news/remembering-richard-wright/article_ba77c755-186d-5c62-9b80-4ae29f4ce695.html|title=Remembering Richard Wright|website=Daily Freeman|date=December 18, 2008|access-date=October 30, 2019}}</ref> a Communist organizer from Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/r_wright/chronology.htm|title=A Richard Wright Chronology|access-date=September 30, 2016|archive-date=February 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224082814/http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/r_wright/chronology.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> They had two daughters: Julia, born in 1942, and Rachel, born in 1949.<ref name=family/>

Ellen Wright, who died on April 6, 2004, aged 92, was the executor of Wright's estate. In this capacity, she unsuccessfully sued a biographer, the poet and writer [[Margaret Walker]], in ''[[Wright v. Warner Books, Inc.]]'' She was a literary agent, and her clients included [[Simone de Beauvoir]], [[Eldridge Cleaver]], and [[Violette Leduc]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hCDwvrfxD1sC&q=%22ellen+wright%22+literary+agent+Simone+de+Beauvoir+Cleaver&pg=PA162|title=American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War|first=Alan M.|last=Wald|author-link=Alan M. Wald|page=162|publisher=The University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill|date=2012|isbn=978-0807835869}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jan/07/featuresreviews.guardianreview25|title=The Island affair|first=James|last=Campbell|author-link=James Campbell (author)|newspaper=The Guardian|date= January 7, 2006}}</ref>