Book · 1945 · Nonfiction

Black Boy

Name: Black Boy
Author: Richard Wright

HarperPerennial Modern Classics · 464 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

Hunger runs through Wright's Southern boyhood: for food, for books, which he gets by forging notes on a white man's library card. He sets down Jim Crow's cruelty without a word of self-pity.

Genre

Autobiography and memoir African American Coming of age

Subject

Racism Identity Communism Radical politics

Setting

Chicago

Time

1945Depicts 20th century

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