Native Son
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: $75.00
Hardcover. Book club edition. Gray cloth with gilt-stamped spine. Spine slightly cocked, very good in a good only edgeworn and torn dustwrapper with internal tape repair. First novel authored by an African-American to be published by the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Item #257196
Richard Wright
birth name: Richard Nathaniel Wright
born: 9/4/1908
died: 11/28/1960
nationality: USA
Biography
Novelist and short-story writer who was among the first American black writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore