How many books did Richard Wright write in his life time?

Answer 1

Richard Wrght wrote 20 books in his lifetime. One is a drama, Nine are fiction, Nine are nonfiction, and one is poetry.

Drama:

Native Son (The Biography of a Young American): A Play in Ten Scenes, with Paul Green. New York: Harper, 1941.
Fiction:

Uncle Tom’s Children: Four Novellas. New York: Harper, 1938.
Uncle Tom’s Children: Five Long Stories. New York: Harper, 1938.
Bright and Morning Star (story). New York: International Publishers, 1938.
Native Son. New York: Harper, 1940.
The Outsider. New York: Harper, 1953.
Savage Holiday. New York: Avon, 1954.
The Long Dream. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1958.
Eight Men (stories). Cleveland and New York: World, 1961.
Lawd Today. New York: Walker, 1963.
Nonfiction:

How “Bigger” Was Born; the Story of Native Son. New York: Harper, 1940.
12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the ***** in the United States. New York: Viking, 1941.
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth. New York: Harper, 1945.
Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos. New York: Harper, 1954.
The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference. Cleveland and New York: World, 1956.
Pagan Spain. New York: Harper, 1957.
White Man, Listen! Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1957.
Letters to Joe C. Brown. Edited by Thomas Knipp. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Libraries, 1968.
American Hunger. (Continuation of Black Boy.) New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
Poetry:

Haiku: This Other World. Eds. Yoshinobu Hakatuni and Robert L. Tener. Arcade, 1998.

Answer 2

You are wrong dude, it's only 16 book