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Biography Precis -- Black Boy


Black Boy , an autobiography by Richard Wright, is an account of a young
African-American boy's thoughts and outlooks on life in the South while growing
up. The novel is 288 pages, and was published by Harper and Row Publishers in ©
1996. The main subject, Richard Wright, who was born in 1908, opens the book
with a description of himself as a four-year-old in Natchez, Mississippi, and
his family's later move to Memphis. In addition it describes his early
rebellion against parental authority, and his unsupervised life on the streets
while his mother is at work. His family lives in poverty and faces constant
hunger. As a result his family lives with his strict grandmother, a fervently
religious woman. In spite of his frequent punishment and beatings, Wright
remembers the pleasures of rural life.
Richard then describes his family's move to Memphis in 1914. Though not
always successful, Richard's rebellious nature pervades the novel. This is......

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