In Black Boy (1945) Richard Wright reports that he published his first story The Voodoo of Hell's Half Acre in the Jackson Southern Register when he was fifteen, but no complete version of this juvenile effort has been found.Wright began to write seriously after moving to Chicago when he was nineteen.n Black Boy (1945) Richard Wright reports that he published his first story The Voodoo of Hell's Half Acre in the Jackson Southern Register when he was fifteen, but no complete version of this juvenile effort has been found.