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Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South is a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.

When Black Boy exploded onto the... Read Full Overview

Richard Wright's powerful and eloquent memoir of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South--at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment, Black Boy is a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. This 75th anniversary... Read Full Overview

Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.

When... Read Full Overview

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. When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned... Read Full Overview

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."--New York Times Book Review

Celebrating its eightieth anniversary, Richard Wright's eloquent autobiography about growing... Read Full Overview