Essay Archive - Biography Precis -- Black Boy
Biography Precis -- Black Boy
Black Boy , an autobiography by Richard Wright, is an account of a young
African-American boy's thoughts and outlooks on life in the South while growing
up. The novel is 288 pages, and was published by Harper and Row Publishers in ©
1996. The main subject, Richard Wright, who was born in 1908, opens the book
with a description of himself as a four-year-old in Natchez, Mississippi, and
his family's later move to Memphis. In addition it describes his early
rebellion against parental authority, and his unsupervised life....
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