‘It couldn’t be more relevant’: the unseen Richard Wright novel finally getting its due

The author of Native Son wrote another damning book about race that was rejected by publishers at the time - but now it's finally seeing the light of day

He was one of most influential African American writers of the 20th century. But Richard Wright found it hard to talk to his daughter about race.

It's like soldiers who go to war and then come back," Julia Wright, who turns 79 this year, says in a phone interview with the Guardian. They don't always find the way to share what they did at war with their family. My father didn't really know how to share the pain about race with me.