AML starts in the bone marrow (the soft inner part of certain bones, where new blood cells are made), but in most cases it quickly moves into the blood. It can sometimes spread to other parts of the body including the lymph nodes, liver, spleen, central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), and testicles.
Richard Wright. African-American writer and poet Richard Wright was born on September 4, 1908, in Roxie, Mississippi, and published his first short story at the age of 16.ead about writer and poet Richard Wright, author of the acclaimed works Black Boy and Native Son, at Biography.com. Read about writer and poet Richard Wright, author of the acclaimed works Black Boy and Native Son, at Biography.com.
Wright moved from school to school, graduating from the ninth grade at the Smith Robertson Junior High School in Jackson as the class valedictorian in June 1925. Wright had published his first short story, The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre, in three parts in the Southern Register in 1924, but no copies survive.