TY - BOOK AU - Wright, Richard. TI - Black boy : (American hunger): a record of childhood and youth SN - 9780060812508 AV - .W75b 1993 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Harper Collins Publishers, Inc. KW - AMERICAN AUTHORS -- BIOGRAPHY KW - AUTOBIOGRAPHIES KW - MISSISSIPPI -- SOCIAL CONDITIONS N1 - Introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. -- Part One. Southern nights -- Part Two. The horror and the glory -- Chronology -- Note on the text -- Note N2 - Black Boy is Richard Wright’s unforgettable story of growing up in the Jim Crow South. Published in 1945, it is often considered a fictionalized autobiography or an autobiographical novel because of Wright’s use of fiction techniques (and possibly fictional events) to tell his story ER -