Editing Richard Wright (author) (section)

== Publications ==

=== Collections ===
* ''[[Uncle Tom's Children]]'' (New York: Harper, 1938) (collection of [[novellas]])
* ''Eight Men'' (Cleveland and New York: World, 1961)
** "[[The Man Who Was Almost a Man]]"
** "The Man Who Lived Underground" (truncated version)
** "Big Black Man"
** "The Man Who Saw the Flood"
** "Man of All Work"
** "Man, God Ain't That..."
** "The Man Who Killed a Shadow"
** "The Man Who Went to Chicago"
* ''Early Works'' ([[Arnold Rampersad]], ed.) ([[Library of America]], 1989),
* ''Later Works'' (Arnold Rampersad, ed.) (Library of America, 1991).

=== Drama ===
* ''[[Native Son (play)|Native Son: The Biography of a Young American]]'' with [[Paul Green (playwright)|Paul Green]] (New York: Harper, 1941)

=== Novels ===
* ''[[Native Son]]'' (New York: Harper, 1940)
* ''[[The Outsider (Wright novel)|The Outsider]]''  (New York: Harper, 1953)
* ''Savage Holiday'' (New York: Avon, 1954)
* ''The Long Dream'' (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1958)
* ''Lawd Today'' (New York: Walker, 1963)
* ''Rite of Passage'' (New York: HarperCollins, 1994) (novella)
* ''A Father's Law'' (London: Harper Perennial, 2008) (unfinished novel)
* ''The Man Who Lived Underground'' (Library of America, 2021) (extended novel, as originally )

=== Non-fiction ===
* ''How "Bigger" Was Born; Notes of a Native Son'' (New York: Harper, 1940)
* ''[[12 Million Black Voices|12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States]]'' (New York: Viking, 1941)
* ''[[Black Boy]]'' (New York: Harper, 1945)
* ''Black Power'' (New York: Harper, 1954)
* ''[[The Color Curtain]]'' (Cleveland and New York: World, 1956)
* ''Pagan Spain'' (New York: Harper, 1957)
* ''Letters to Joe C. Brown'' (Kent State University Libraries, 1968)
* ''American Hunger'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1977)
* ''Conversations with Richard Wright'' (University Press of Mississippi, 1993).
* ''Black Power: Three Books from Exile: "Black Power"; "The Color Curtain"; and "White Man, Listen!"'' (Harper Perennial, 2008)

=== Essays ===
* ''The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch'' (1937)
* ''Introduction to Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City'' (1945)
* ''[[I Choose Exile (Richard Wright)|I Choose Exile]]'' (1951)
* ''White Man, Listen!'' (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1957)
* ''Blueprint for Negro Literature'' (New York City, New York) (1937)<ref>[http://www.nathanielturner.com/blueprintfornegroliterature.htm "Blueprint for Negro Literature"], ''ChickenBones: A Journal''.</ref>
* ''[[The God That Failed]]'' (contributor) (1949)

; Poetry
* ''Haiku: This Other World'' (eds. Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert L. Tener; Arcade, 1998, {{ISBN|0385720246}})
** '''re-issue''' (''paperback''): ''Haiku: The Last Poetry of Richard Wright'' (Arcade Publishing, 2012), {{ISBN | 978-1-61145-349-2}}