Shadowing Ralph Ellison. Wright, John, University Press of Mississippi, Author, 2006. Link
Intellectual Life, [African American]: Wright, John, Macmillan Publishing Co., The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, 3 1369-90, 1995.
Alain Locke: Wright, John, Macmillan Publishing Co., The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, 3 1341-43, 1995.
Out of the Fog: the Black Renaissance: Wright, John, The Guthrie Program Magazine, 1995.
A Photoplate for the Padre: Wright, John, Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, 13.4 , 1995.
A Scintillating Send-Off for Falling Stars: The Back Renaissance: Wright, John, A Stronger Soul Within A Finer Frame, 1990.
"Sterling Brown's Folk Odyssey." . Wright, John, University of California Press, Author, 1990.