Black Boy

Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming of age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America.

• Author
• Richard Wright, Jerry W. Ward Jr.

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 419

• Publisher
• Harper Perennial Modern Classics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-06-092978-7

• EAN
• 9780060929787

• Genres
• classics, memoir, biography, race, autobiography, history, school, literature

• Release date
• 1998