A Centennial Celebration to Honor Famed Author Richard Wright
Speaker: Julia Wright of Paris, France
International Education Keynote Address
When: October 6, 2008
Where: Union Avenue Campus Theater 10 –11 a.m.
Julia Wright is the elder daughter of the African American writer Richard Wright and the Polish-Jewish literary agent Ellen Poplar Wright. Her life’s work represents a profound commitment to civil rights across the globe. Her journalistic and literary credits include co-founding the Richard Wright Newsletter and contributing introductions to two of her father’s books: Haiku: This Other World and A Father’s Law. Seeing that this unfinished novel was published was her personal gift to her father on his centennial birthday. She is actively involved in the double commemoration of the Centennial of Wright’s birth and the half-Centennial of his death: 2008 and 2010. Her own forthcoming memoir promises to provide a revealing look at this important woman’s activist life. Everyone is invited to join in this centennial celebration of the author of such important works as Native Son and Black Boy.
Reception following.
