As Wright was rising to prominence, his personal life was going through changes as well. His brother now engaged in the Works Progress Administration was now assuming some responsibility for the family's support thus relieving Richard a bit. Turning down the offer of a very high-paying job, he moves to New York City to pursue his career as a writer. After a brief stay with artist acquaintances in Greenwich Village, he moves to Harlem and secures a furnished room in the Douglass Hotel. He attends the Second American Writer's Congress as a delegate even serving as a session president thus starting an endless series of such elevated roles in writers associations and conferences. He also becomes the Harlem editor for Daily Worker writing over 200 articles during the year amongst which were a series on blues singer Leadbelly, helps launch New Challenge, and was writing the Harlem section for New York Panorama and "The Harlems" in The New York City Guide" Having moved again, he announces plans to marry the daughter of his Harlem landlady, but later cancells the wedding revealing to friends that a medical examination had indicated that the young lady had congenital syphilis.
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