Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth /
Richard Wright
- New York : Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., c1993
- xxi, 501 pages ; 18 cm.
Introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. -- Part One. Southern nights -- Part Two. The horror and the glory -- Chronology -- Note on the text -- Note.
Black Boy is Richard Wright’s unforgettable story of growing up in the Jim Crow South. Published in 1945, it is often considered a fictionalized autobiography or an autobiographical novel because of Wright’s use of fiction techniques (and possibly fictional events) to tell his story.