Native Son
About this book
Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
---------- Also contained in: Early Works
Subjects
- african american
- african american men
- african american men in literature
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american literature
- bigger thomas
- bigger thomas (fictitious character)
- bildungsromans
- blacks
- characters
- chicago (ill.), fiction
- classic literature
- classics
- communism
- crime
- crime fiction
- crime, fiction
- criminals
- criminals, fiction
- death row inmates
- drama
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, psychological
- history and criticism
- homicide
- illinois, fiction
- literary
- literary collections
- long now manual for civilization
- men
- murder
- murderers
- murder in literature
- open_syllabus_project
- psychological fiction
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 6
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- thomas, bigger (fictitious character)
- thomas, bigger (fictitious character), fiction
- trials (murder)
- trials (murder) in literature
- wright, richard, 1908-1960