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.

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.

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

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

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 ...

A chronicle of coming of age under the racial prejudices of the American south, as much the story of a writer finding his voice, Black Boy remains one of the great, impassioned memoirs of the twentieth century.

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

Collection of interviews revealing Wright's racial experience and the themes and techniques of his own work.

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 ...

A black author's assault upon a society that transforms self-destructiveness into an art.