Richard Wright's 'Native Son'
Richard Wright
Born a black boy in Mississippi in the 1908, Richard Wright could not have expected to gain much education or achieve any greatness in his life. His mother was a school teacher and his father an illiterate sharecropper. Yet, at the age of 16 he was published in a newspaper, at 32 wrote his bestseller Native Son, at 33 married a white woman, and, shortly before his death, moved to Paris, France. As a child, Wright was forced to move around constantly because his mother was forced to take domestic jobs away from home after her husband had left her. Despite moving, Wright graduated from ninth grade as valedictorian and aspirations to become a writer. He was overjoyed when his short stories were published in a Souther African-American
Born a black boy in Mississippi in the 1908, Richard Wright could not have expected to gain much education or achieve any greatness in his life. His mother was a school teacher and his father an illiterate sharecropper. Yet, at the age of 16 he was published in a newspaper, at 32 wrote his bestseller Native Son, at 33 married a white woman, and, shortly before his death, moved to Paris, France. As a child, Wright was forced to move around constantly because his mother was forced to take domestic jobs away from home after her husband had left her. Despite moving, Wright graduated from ninth grade as valedictorian and aspirations to become a writer. He was overjoyed when his short stories were published in a Souther African-American