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Yet before he was 40, Wright dominated literary America, publishing four books in seven years, each a triumph in its genre. His first novel, ''Native Son'' (1940), sold at the rate of 2,000 copies a day, making Wright the first best-selling black writer in the country's history. ''Black Boy'' (1945), his memoir of his Southern childhood, was a bigger success, selling more than a half-million copies.
She is at her best in her accounts of Wright's collaboration with the white Southern playwright Paul Green on the dramatization of ''Native Son'' (directed on Broadway by Orson Welles in 1941) and of Wright's sojourn in pre-independence Ghana, which produced his nonfiction book ''Black Power'' (1954).