Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1945).

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. Reprint. Lightly rubbed on the boards, very good or better lacking the dustwrapper. Likely book club edition with printed flyer and return slip from the book club laid in. The best selling book by any African-American author up until that time.

Item #458966

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Item #458966 Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth. Richard WRIGHT.

Richard Wright
birth name: Richard Nathaniel Wright
born: 9/4/1908
died: 11/28/1960
nationality: USA

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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

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