Native Son (61 page)

RICHARD WRIGHT
won international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the black experience. He stands today alongside such African American luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and two of his books,
Native Son
and
Black Boy
, are required reading in high schools and colleges across the nation. His final, unfinished novel,
A Father’s Law
, was recently rediscovered and published posthumously. He died in 1960.

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Uncle Tom’s Children

Native Son

Black Boy

The Outsider

Savage Holiday

Black Power: A Record of Reaction in the Land of Pathos

Pagan Spain: A Report of a Journey into the Past

White Man, Listen!

The Long Dream

Eight Men

American Hunger

Rite of Passage

A Father’s Law

Acknowledgment is made to
The Saturday Review of Literature
for permission to reproduce those parts of “How ‘Bigger’ was Born” that appeared in the issue of 1 June 1940. The article was published in its entirety for the time in 1940 by Harper & Brothers.

NATIVE SON
. Copyright © 1940 by Richard Wright. Restored edition copyright © 1993 by Ellen Wright. Introduction copyright © 1993 by Arnold Rampersad. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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