Black Boy

Black Boy

Black Boy is an autobiography by Richard Wright. The author explores his childhood and race relations in the South. Wright eventually moves to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party. Black Boy is a memoir of Richard Wright's childhood and young adulthood. It is split into two sections, "Southern Night" and "The Horror and the Glory" . The book begins with a mischievous, four-year-old Wright setting fire to his house, and continues in that vein. Wright is a curious child living in a household of strict, religious women and violent,...
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Author:Richard Wright
Genre:Künstlerroman, Autobiography, Non-fiction, Biography
Year published:1945
Number of editions:20

Author of Black Boy

Richard Wright
Richard Wright
September 4, 1908 - November 28, 1960
Birthplace:Roxie, Mississippi

Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially those involving the plight of African-Americans during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. His work helped...
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Additional works by Richard Wright
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Native Son Novel
The Outsider Novel
Uncle Tom's Children Short story
Environmental Science
Bukcase III
Rite de passage
American Hunger
The Long Dream
Programacion En Open Gl - Con Un CD-ROM
World wide waste
Fishbelly
Some philosophical aspects of the use of mathematics and computers in the visual arts
Un enfant du pays
A Reader's Guide to the Works of Richard Wright
8 Men
Barkerville - A gold rush experience
British Columbia cross-country ski routes
Savage Holiday
Modern Design at Auction
Rite of Passage
Haiku
The Covenant of Brotherhood
Richard Wright
Ancient Egypt
The Flesh Remembers
Eight Men Speak and Other Plays from the Canadian Workers Theatre
Anglo-Norman Studies
Wright
Bon sang de bonsoir
Literary Companion Series - Native Son (hardcover edition)
Paris, 1789
African Philosophy
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow
Huit hommes
Twelve Million Black Voices
Cuckoo
Les Enfants De Loncle Tom
One John A. Too Many
Black power
Bright and morning star
The color curtain
Conversations with Richard Wright
Eight men
Lawd today
Pagan Spain
Richard Wright reader
White man, listen!
Works
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Literary Genres

Künstlerroman
Künstlerroman

A Künstlerroman , meaning "artist's novel" in German, is a narrative about an artist's growth to maturity. It may be classified as a specific...
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Autobiography
Autobiography

"If you like autobiographies, as I do, then you will be pleased to know that this one actually is an auto-biography. It has been written entirely by...
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction

Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be factual. This...
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Biography
Biography

A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. It entails more than basic facts , a biography also portrays a subject's...
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    How long is the book "Black Boy"?
  • A:
    The book is 640 pages.
  • Q:
    The book "Black Boy" is in what genre?
  • A:
    The written work is labeled as: Künstlerroman, Autobiography, Non-fiction and Biography.
  • Q:
    The book, "Black Boy" is of which category?
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    "Black Boy" is categorized in the area of: United States
  • Q:
    When was the title "Black Boy" first published?
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    The book was initially published in 1945.

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