Hart, Joyce. Native Son: the Story of Richard Wright.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)

128p. (World Writers Series). photos. bibliog. chron. index. notes. Web sites. CIP. Morgan Reynolds. 2002. PLB $21.95. ISBN 1-931798-06-0. LC 2002013686.

Gr 8 Up--A full portrait of one of the seminal African-American writers of the 20th century. Hart follows her subject from his poor Southern childhood to his struggles as a young man in Chicago to his literary success and notoriety and the end of his life in Europe. Wright's best-known works-at least to high school students-are Native Son and Black Boy, both of which are major reference points and sources for the text. The …