Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.6
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
21819
Points per Word
0.000183
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.03125
Series
American Originals
Description
This biography profiles the life and achievements of twentieth-century African American novelist Richard Wright, whose early life was shaped by a strict grandmother who had been a slave, an illiterate father, and a mother educated as a schoolteacher.