Yesterday, I  provided a complete list of short stories by Zora Neale Hurston (link expired)  as a means of exploring how well known novelists in the 100 Novels Collection (link expired) such as Hurston and Charles Chesnutt (link expired) actually wrote in other genres.

Today, I am providing a list of short stories written by Richard  Wright. Even though, Wright’s Native Son helped to catapult Wright to national prominence of being a best-seller, selling over 250, 000 copies in the first three weeks, his collection of short stories “Uncle Tom’s Children” afforded him the finances to move to Harlem and begin writing his novel. In addition, Wright received a Guggenheim Fellowship from the same collection. Wright’s work as a short story writer is certainly significant as to how we understand his larger legacy. 

Uncle Tom’s Children (1938)

Big Boy Leaves Home

Down by the Riverside

Long Black Song

Fire and Cloud

Bright and Morning Star

Eight Men: Short Stories (1961)

The Man Who Was Almost a Man

The Man Who Lived Underground

Big Black Good Man

The Wan Who Saw the Flood

Man of all Work

Man, God Ain’t Like That…

The Man Who Killed a Shadow

The Man Who Went to Chicago