Black Boy

Name: Black Boy
Author: Richard Wright

by Richard Wright

Memoir of a Black man's struggles with poverty, racism, and hunger in the American South

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Richard Wright

Wright's Black Boy is the defining autobiography of the Black American experience under segregation, a record of intellectual awakening under conditions designed to prevent it. Native Son made him the first Black novelist to be taken seriously by the white American literary establishment.

More by Richard Wright

Native SonNaturalistic novel depicting a Black man's descent into violence and despair in Chicago
The OutsiderPhilosophical novel exploring an intellectual's alienation and search for meaning
Uncle Tom's ChildrenStory collection of African American life in the segregated South during the Depression
The Long DreamNovel set in Mississippi examining race, sexuality, and violence in Southern life
12 Million Black VoicesIllustrated photo-essay documenting the lives and struggles of Black Americans
American HungerSequel to Black Boy continuing Wright's memoir of intellectual and political awakening