Native Son

Description:

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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL506449W)

subjects: African American men,  African americans,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Bildungsromans,  Blacks,  classic literature,  Communism,  Crime,  Crime fiction,  Criminals,  Death row inmates,  Drama,  fiction,  Long Now Manual for Civilization,  Murder,  Murderers,  open_syllabus_project,  psychological fiction,  Reading Level-Grade 6,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  Trials (Murder),  African americans, fiction,  Thomas, bigger (fictitious character), fiction,  Chicago (ill.), fiction,  Illinois, fiction,  Bigger Thomas (Fictitious character),  African American men in literature,  Trials (Murder) in literature,  Murder in literature,  American literature,  History and criticism,  Fiction, psychological,  Crime, fiction,  Criminals, fiction,  Wright, richard, 1908-1960,  Fiction, general,  Literary collections,  Thomas, bigger (fictitious character),  Homicide,  Men,  African American,  Classics,  Literary,  Characters

People: Bigger Thomas,  Vera Thomas,  Mrs. Thomas,  Henry Dalton,  Gus,  G.H.,  Jack Harding,  Mary Dalton,  Mrs. Dalton,  Peggy,  Jan Erlone,  Bessie,  Mr. Britten,  Boris Max,  Buddy Thomas,  Buckley

Places: Chicago,  Chicago (Ill.),  ENGLAND,  Illinois,  Chicago's South Side,  Washington Park

Times: 1930s