Full name: Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

Author: Richard Wright Year: 1945 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Memoirs Culture: African-American Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon OpenLibrary eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060929787 9780061130243 0060929782 0061130249

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. Similar books: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Native Son by Richard Wright No Name in the Street by James Baldwin Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall The Color of Water by James McBride Colored People by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Black Ice by Lorene Cary Pimp by Iceberg Slim Patrimony by Philip Roth A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway The Facts by Philip Roth Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen