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Article: Native Geography: Richard Wright's Work for the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago.(Forgotten Manuscripts)(Essay)
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- African American Review
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- March 22, 2008
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Perhaps the most famous anecdote about the influence of the Federal Writers Project (FWP) on writers in its employ is that about Ralph Ellison, who--while working on the "Living Lore" folklore project in New York City--collected a story about an invisible man, the apparent inspiration for his later novel. More recently, in Go Gator and Muddy the Water, Pamela Bordelon has published many of Zora Neale Hurston's writings for the Florida project, revealing deep connections between Hurston's FWP fieldwork and the settings of her fiction. While Richard Wright is often hailed as the "poster child" for the Writers' Project, not enough has been written about the influence of the ...