Black Boy

Black Boy

First edition
Author	Richard Wright
Language	English
Subject	Autobiography, Non-fiction
Published	1945 Harper & Brothers
Publication place	United States
Media type	Paperback
Pages	419 p.
ISBN	0-06-113024-9
OCLC	94572252
Dewey Decimal	813/.52 B 22
LC Class	PS3545.R815 Z96 2006
Preceded by	12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States
Followed by	The Outsider

Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his upbringing. Wright describes his youth in the South: Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, and his eventual move to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party. Black Boy gained high acclaim in the United States because of Wright's honest and profound depiction of racism in America. While the book gained significant recognition, much of the reception throughout and after the publication process was highly controversial.