This American writer, author of ‘Black Boy’ and ‘Native Son’, left the United States after the war to escape segregation and settled in Paris. Who is he?
The answer
The grandson of enslaved people, born in Mississippi in 1908, Richard Wright settled in Paris in 1947, where he became friends with Jean-Paul Sartre. He died there in 1960 and rests in the columbarium at Père-Lachaise, in Division 87.
This question belongs to the “Famous Foreigners” series of the Père-Lachaise quiz: ten questions, a story behind every right answer.