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Author Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.

Title Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth / Richard Wright ; with a foreword by Edward P. Jones.

Edition 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed., 60th anniversary ed.
Publication Info. New York : HarperPerennial ModernClassics, 2006.
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Adult Biography  BIO WRIGHT    AVAILABLE
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Description xiv, 419, 14 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note "The restored text, established by the Library of America."
"Originally published in 1945 by Harper & Brothers ... The text as restored by the Library of America was published in 1991 ... First HarperPerennial edition published 1993"--T.p. verso.
Summary The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years.
Audience 950 Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.4 22.0 12777.
Subject Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Childhood and youth.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi.
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Social life and customs -- Biography.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American authors -- Biography.
Mississippi -- Social conditions -- Biography.
Mississippi -- Biography.
Genre Autobiography.
Added Title American hunger
ISBN 9780061130243 paperback
0061130249 paperback
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