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Native Son

About this work
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
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Subjects
- African American men
- African americans
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Bildungsromans
- Blacks
- classic literature
- Communism
- Crime
- Crime fiction
- Criminals
- Death row inmates
- Drama