TY - BOOK AU - Hart,Joyce TI - Native son: the story of Richard Wright SN - 1931798060 AV - PS3545.R815 Z668 2003 U1 - 813/.52B 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Greensboro, N.C. PB - Morgan Reynolds Pub. KW - Wright, Richard, KW - Authors, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - African American authors KW - African Americans KW - Literature KW - lcgft KW - Biographies N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-123) and index; A troubling beginning -- Memphis -- Finding a voice -- Exploring the Communist Party -- First book -- Reaching the masses -- Controversy -- Black boy -- Expatriate N2 - Traces the life and achievements of the twentieth-century African American novelist, whose early life was shaped by a strict grandmother who had been a slave, an illiterate father, and a mother educated as a schoolteacher ER -