Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth /

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.

Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth / American hunger Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. - 1st Perennial Classics ed. - New York : Perennial Classics, 1998. - xix, 419 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

"The restored text, established by the Library of America." "Originally published in 1945 by Harper & Brothers ... The text as restored by the Library of America was published in 1991 ... First HarperPerennial edition published 1993"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years.

0060929782 (pbk.)

98028840


Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 --Childhood and youth.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 --Homes and haunts--Mississippi.


Englischliteratur
Topic
Black Americans
Autobiography
biography
Childhood
Youth
USA
Blacks
Social life and customs
Social life and customs
Afro-Americans
Mississippi
Twenties Century
African Americans--Social life and customs.--Mississippi
Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Mississippi.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
African American authors--Biography.


Mississippi--Social conditions.
Mississippi--Biography.

PS3545.R815 / Z96 1998

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