Black boy :

By: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960Material type: TextTextSeries: Vintage classicsPublication details: London : Vintage, 2000Description: 262 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780099285069 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Childhood and youth | African American novelists -- Biography | African Americans -- Southern States -- Biography | Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography | BiographyDDC classification: 813.52 LOC classification: PS3545.R815Summary: Moved from home to home, from brick tenement to orphanage, Richard Wright had had, by the age of 12, only one year's formal education. Gradually he learned how to survive in a world of white hostility, secretly satisfying his craving for books.
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Originally published: London: Gollancz, 1946.

Moved from home to home, from brick tenement to orphanage, Richard Wright had had, by the age of 12, only one year's formal education. Gradually he learned how to survive in a world of white hostility, secretly satisfying his craving for books.