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Black Boy

Richard Wright

  • 290 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1945
  • 64 editions
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1 About this book

Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming of age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America.

  • Biography
  • Social science
  • Biography & autobiography
  • Discrimination & Race Relations
  • Authors, biography
  • African americans, biography
  • Social life and customs
  • African American authors

2 About Richard Wright

1908–1960

Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence.

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