Black boy richard wright autobiography
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Black Boy
1945 memoir by Richard Wright
For other uses, see Black Boy (disambiguation).
Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his upbringing.
Wright describes his youth in the South: Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, and his eventual move to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party. Black Boy gained high acclaim in the United States because of Wright's honest and profound depiction of racism in America.
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While the book gained significant recognition, much of the reception throughout and after the publication process was highly controversial.
Background
Richard Wright's Black Boy was written in 1943 and published two years later (1945) in the early years of his career.
Wright wrote Black Boy as a response to the experiences he had growing up.[1] Given that Black Boy is partially autobiographical, many of the anecdotes stem from real experiences throughout Wright