Richard Wright was an American novelist and short-story writer whose work confronted racism and Black life in the United States. His best-known books include Native Son and the autobiographical Black Boy; he later settled in Paris and died there in 1960.
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Years covered1940–1945
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright’s powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.
Print · Harper Collins · 2008-04-29 · English ISBN 9780061148507
Print · HarperCollins · 2014-09-16 · English ISBN 9780062357250
eBook · HarperCollins · 2009-06-16 · English ISBN 9780061935411
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
Print · Harper Collins · 2007-03-27 · English ISBN 9780061130243
Print · HarperCollins · 2008-04-29 · English ISBN 9780061443084
