A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson.

Autobiography of Southern Negro who yearned for intellectual and physical freedom.

This edition of Native Son includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born, along with notes on the text. Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail.

The book is a poignant coming-of-age story that explores the author's struggles with poverty, violence, and discrimination, while also celebrating his resilience and determination to carve out a better life for himself.

The story of Bigger Thomas, a black youth seeking his identity in the white world.-from Amazon.

As Maryemma Graham writes in her Introduction to this edition, with its restored text established by the Library of America, "The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative ...

At the end of the book, Wright sits pencil in hand, determined to “hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo.” Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest ...

An autobiographical account of a Negro author's childhood and youth in the South.

There is an unsettling and totally frank personal story here, and a lot of raw social history as well. American Hunger, published posthumously in 1977, was originally intended as the second volume of Black Boy.

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