This version of the autobiography is presented in two parts, as authorized by the author's estate. Part one tells of his painful early years in the Jim Crow South. Part two follows his journey North.
Provides information about Richard Wright's literary portrait "Native Son" which follows a young African-American man down a path of destruction after he accidently kills a white girl, and discusses the symbolism and lasting impact of the story.
Presents twentieth and early twenty-first-century critical essays on Richard Wright's "Native Son" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.
A biography of Richard Wright, author of the acclaimed 1940 novel "Native Son," tracing his journey from his birth in a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to international fame as a writer and activist against racism.
