Richard Wright's Native Son

The book Native Son is a great book written by Richard Wright, an African American writer in the early 1900’s. Richard Wright was born September 4, 1908, in Roxie, Mississippi, and died in Paris, France, on November 28, 1960. Richard was raised by a single mother, the father left their family when he was very young. Richard was the grandson of slaves and the son of a share cropper. He was an amazing writer who wrote short stories, he published his first one at the age of 16. Due to the fact that Richard was African American, he traveled to New York to have a better chance to get his work published. He first published Uncle Tom's Children, and won a five hundred dollar prize from a magazine. After he published Native son in 1940, which is based
on a 20 year old named Bigger Thomas in the 1930’s in Chicago. This story took place during the great depression we left by entering war in 1941. Bigger was employed by a white family and on the first night he murdered the daughter of his employer. I am now adding a new edition to Native son, with some of the paintings from Kerry James Marshall’s exhibit.