Baldwin's idol and friend was author Richard Wright, whom Baldwin called "the greatest Black writer in the world for me". Wright is best known for his novel "Native Son" (1940), which tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a Black man struggling for acceptance in Chicago. Baldwin was so impressed by the novel that he titled a collection of his own essays "Notes of a Native Son", in reference to Wright's novel. However, their friendship fell apart due to one of the book's essays, "Everybody's Protest Novel," which criticized "Native Son" for lacking credible characters and psychological complexity. Among Wright's other books are the autobiographical novel "Black Boy" (1945), "The Outsider" (1953), and "White Man, Listen!" (1957).