num_pages: 272
description: Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s sold more than half a million copies on first publication and is considered a classic of the genre.
language: English
title: Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood
titlecomplete: Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood
genres: Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, School, African American, History, Classics, Race, Nonfiction, Literature
ratings_count: 53052
publisher: Vintage Books