Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics)
Autobiography by Richard Wright, published in 1945 and considered to be one of his finest works. The book is sometimes considered a fictionalized autobiography or an autobiographical novel because of its use of novelistic techniques.Black Boydescribes vividly Wright's often harsh, hardscrabble boyhood and youth in rural Mississippi and in Memphis, Tenn. When the work was first published, many white critics viewedBlack Boyprimarily as an attack on racist Southern white society. From the 1960s the work came to be understood as the story of Wright's coming of age and development as a writer whose race, though a primary component of his life, was but one of many that formed him as an artist.   --The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature--This text refers to theMass Market Paperbackedition.