Richard Wright's story of his childhood, Black Boy, made him one of America's most popular writers in the 1940s. In addition to Black Boy, which he dedicated to his 3-year-old daughter, he also wrote Native Son, a fictional account of a black youth in the segregated North.
Native Son tells the story of Bigger Thomas, an uneducated black man from Chicago who unintentionally kills a young white woman. Bigger is a study in contrasts: Strong, ignorant and angry, he's also confused, vulnerable and at a loss about how to deal with a racist society. Wright's novel makes Bigger into America's native son — the offspring of a nation's bigotry.
(from the library's "Books to Read Again and Again" shelf)
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