Native Son

Richard Wright

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Algeo, Ann. The Courtroom as Forum: Homicide Trials by Dreiser, Wright, Capote, and Mailer. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.

Beauvais, Paul Jude. Richard Wright’s Native Son. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.

Brignano, Russell C. Richard Wright: An Introduction to the Man and His Works. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970.

DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Bantam Books, 1989.

Felgar, Robert. Richard Wright. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and K. A. Appiah, eds. Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. New York: Amistad Press, 1993.

Kinnamon, Kenneth, ed. Critical Essays on Richard Wright’s Native Son. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1997.

Miller, Eugene E. Voice of a Native Son: The Poetics of Richard Wright. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.

Wright, Richard. Black Boy. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

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