Black Boy

by Richard Wright

Published in 1945, this autobiography--the story of Wright's Southern childhood, up to the time when he left Memphis for Chicago--is considered by many critics to be his most important work.

Editions of Black Boy

ISBN 9780060812508	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 1993	Price $1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780971075672	Binding/Format Book	Publisher Everbind Anthologies	Date 2003	Price $7.50	Near Fine
ISBN 9780060763527	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Harperaudio	Date 2005	Price $25.00	New
ISBN 9780061130243	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Perennial	Date 2007	Price $7.36	Used - Good
ISBN 9781417798537	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 2007	Price None Available
ISBN 9780061443084	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Perennial	Date 2008	Price $5.53	Good
ISBN 9780060830564	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 2001	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780898459173	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Harperaudio	Date 1989	Price $36.99	Good
ISBN 9781568490670	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Buccaneer Books	Date 1995	Price $14.95	Very Good
ISBN 9780060834005	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 2005	Price $1.00	Good

Publisher Notes

A sixtieth anniversary edition of the American autobiographical classic traces the author's poignant coming of age in the Jim Crow-era South, a period during which he struggled to survive while journeying from innocence to adulthood. By the author of Native Son.

Media Reviews

"One rises from the reading of such a book with mixed thoughts. Richard Wright uses vigorous and straightforward English; often there is real beauty in his words even when they are mingled with sadism....Yet at the result one is baffled. Evidently if this is an actual record, bad as the world is, such concentrated meanness, filth and despair never completely filled it or any particular part of it. But if the book is meant to be a creative picture and a warning, even then, it misses its possible effectiveness becuase it is as a work of art so patently and terribly overdrawn."

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