WRIGHT, SARAH E.
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Subseries 2.3
Writings by others, circa 1950-2001
Box 22 and OP7
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of writings by others from 1950-2001, including writings about Wright. The bulk of writings about Wright are drafts of reviews, blurbs, and essays about her works. Other writings consist primarily of poetry, including works by Langston Hughes, Walter Lowenfels, and Lucy E. Smith. The subseries also contains a few writings by Wright's son, who wrote under the name Michael Franc Wright.
Arrangement Note
Arranged by writing type, then in alphabetical order.
Writings about Wright | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
OP7 | 5 | Blurbs about Give Me a Child, circa 1955 |
22 | 18 | Blurbs about This Childs Gonna Live, circa 1969 |
22 | 19 | Bullock, Doris Powers, "Sarah E. Wright Celebrates Black Country Folk," circa 1969 |
22 | 20 | Guilford, Virginia B., "Sarah Elizabeth Wright," Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 33, 1984 |
22 | 21 | Harris, Trudier, "Three Black Women Writers and Humanism: A Folk Perspective" [includes correspondence], 1979 |
22 | 22 | Hunter, Kristin, review of Give Me a Child [includes correspondence], circa 1955 |
22 | 23 | LeCompte, C.B., Jr., "No Strangers here," review of Give Me a Child, circa 1955 |
22 | 24 | Like It Is television program transcript, interview with Wright, Alice Childress, and Bill Tatum, 1970 |
22 | 25 | Melham, D.H., "Sarah E. Wright: Novelist/Poet/Writer," interview and introduction, Artist and Influence: The Journal of Black American Cultural History, 2001 |
22 | 26 | Mitchell, Loften, "An Essay on Sarah Wrights New Book and Some People I Know," circa 1969 |
22 | 27 | Obituaries, 1969 |
22 | 28 | Press release draft for new edition of This Childs Gonna Live, no date |
22 | 29 | Salahu-Din, Deborah Tulani, "From the Lower Eastern Shore to the Lower East Side: The Literary Journey of Sarah Elizabeth Wright," essay and interview, 1996 |
22 | 30 | "Sarah E. Wright," Contemporary Authors [includes notes by Wright], 1979 |
22 | 31 | Unidentified essay fragment [includes notes by Wright], no date |
Other writings | ||
22 | 32 | "Coast-to-Coast Celebrations: The Triumph of Lorraine Hansberry," no date |
22 | 33 | Curtin, Bernard, "In the Early Autumn" [includes correspondence], 1971 |
22 | 34 | Feelings, Tom, untitled poem [includes inscription], December 5, 1975 |
22 | 35 | Hughes, Langston, "The Backlash Blues" [includes inscription], no date |
22 | 36 | Hughes, Langston, "Consider Me" [includes inscription], March 23, 1958 |
22 | 37 | Killens, John Oliver, quote about black runners, 1994 |
22 | 38 | Lowenfels, Walter, "Christmas Prayer," no date |
22 | 39 | Lowenfels, Walter, "For My Daughters 20th Birthday" [includes correspondence], no date |
22 | 40 | Lowenfels, Walter, "Giordano Bruno" [2 versions, each including correspondence], no date |
22 | 41 | Lowenfels, Walter, "How to Kill a Book" [includes correspondence], February 26, 1962 |
22 | 42 | Lowenfels, Walter, "Prologue for an Unfinished Eulogy," 1957 |
22 | 43 | Lowenfels, Walter, "Survival Kit" [includes inscription], February 22, 1972 |
22 | 44 | Lowenfels, Walter, "The White Poetry Syndicate," circa 1971 |
22 | 45 | Lowenfels-Perpelitt, Manna, "The Collector," no date |
22 | 46 | Lowenfels-Perpelitt, Manna, "On Commitment, or Theres Always a Fly in the Ointment" [includes inscription], 1980 |
22 | 47 | Radio advertisement for natural hair care for the American Black Network, no date |
22 | 48 | Rosenberg, Ruth P., untitled poem, May 27, 1979 |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "America Singing," April 25, 1964 |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Ask Any Vet," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Blood of the Lambs," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Cradle Song," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Elegy on a Confederate Graveyard," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Epitaph for a Lord and Master," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Fallow Be My Ground," February 18, 1963 |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Freedom Can Be a Printed Word," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "The Gift," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Gods," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "I Caroline" [includes correspondence], March 16, 1963 |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Image," May 25, 1964 |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Jennie," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Knowing," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Learning," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "A Long Time Dying," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Lullaby," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Mama's Gone a Hunting," December 25, 1958 |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "No Candles Lit" [includes inscription], no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Of Christmas Joy," 1962 |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "On the Fifth Day of Christmas" [includes "Dateline Seoul December 1950"], circa 1950 |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "A Plea from the Home for Homeless Dreams," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Requiem," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Remembrance," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "A Sickness for Home," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "So Strange a Time," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Song for America," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Stranger in a Strange Land," October 6, 1963 |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Suppertime," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Sweet as Honeycomb" [variant title: "African Lullaby"], no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "To Daniel at Midnight," no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "Was That the Year?" no date |
22 | 49 | Smith, Lucy E., "A Wind Bearing Clover," no date |
22 | 50 | Tatum, Bill?, "The Velvet Curtain Begins Where the Cotton Curtain Ends," October 28, 1963 |
22 | 51 | Wright, Michael Franc?, fragment, December 1971 |
22 | 52 | Wright, Michael Franc, untitled essay on Black Nationalism, October 7, 1968 |