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Richard Wright: Black boy (2006, Harper Perennial Modern Classics) 4 stars

Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his upbringing. Wright …

Review of 'Black boy' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

An amazing memoir overall. The lengthy digression into his affiliation with the communist party during the 1930s seems dated now and out of balance with the rest of his memoir, but probably resonated more in the past when this was first published.