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a i WY 106-1674 . | * * School, taught by his aunt. At 15 he left m 4ob as porter and messenger. During the = yer =e = si and went to Mezphis ant got sequent years he worked his wey all over the country working at “any kind’ o £ job from ditch-digging to clerking in @ post office. He drifted to Chicago where he had heard Negroes stood a better chance of getting jobs. He was a clerk for a while in 1933 had a taste of politics. The review then quotes what is purportedly the Subject's own statement: 28 "I became an assistant precinct captain in the oan Primary Election", he said,"I was promised a job, J didn't get it. Next time I became an assistant precinct captain for the Democrats and was promised a job, which I didn't get. So then I became a Red, Mow I om what the papers refer to as a card-carrying Commnist,.*,. In 1935, WRIGHT was on the FEDERAL WRITKRS' PROJECT in Chicago anc had sold paper articles and some stories to the magazines. He came to New York in 1937 where he again got on the WRITERS’ PROJECT. He wrote essay on Harlem in the "New York Pansreame". He also did some work on the ily Worker" and became e contributing editor of the-#Gw Masses", In 1939, WRIGHT reportedly got a Guggenheiz fellowship which enabled him to quit the Project and complete his nowel "Native Son". He lived for some months during 1940 in Mexico but returned to the Uni ted States in Hovenber of 19406