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Episode: Sep. 04, 2008: The Writer's Almanac
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Thursday's Poem: "Evolution in Indiana" by Richard Cecil, from Twenty First Century Blues. Thursday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of the novelist Richard Wright, born in on a farm near Roxie, Mississippi (1908). He grew up in Jim Crow's South, the son of a sharecropper and a schoolteacher. His grandparents had been slaves. His father abandoned the family when Richard was five years old. He moved with his mother to Memphis. He lived with various relatives and attended school sporadically, but he taught himself to read by secretly borrowing books from the whites-only library in Memphis. He said, "My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of terror, tension, and anxiety."..
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