148 pages
English language
Published July 24, 1941 by Harper.
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Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
Also contained in: Early Works
Subjects
- Drama
- Murderers
- Trials (Murder)
- Thomas Bigger (Fictitious character)
- African American men
- African Americans
- Death row inmates
Places
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Illinois
- Chicago