Native Son

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Native Son (1940, Harper & Brothers Publishers)

359 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 1940 by Harper & Brothers Publishers.

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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.

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