本书作者是美国黑人小说家、评论家。理查德·赖特。其作品以写美国黑人题材、写种族歧视主题闻名于世。本书节选自《土生子》和《黑孩子》，他将自己的童年回忆与一个年轻的被困在芝加哥贫民窟的黑人男子交织在一起，描绘出一幅无法克服的被压迫的画卷。

RICHARD WRIGHT was born in Mississippi in 1908. As a child helived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with variousrelatives - each proved painful, yet formative experiences which heeventually wrote about in his autobiography, Black Boy. Wright lefthome at fifteen and in 1934 went to Chicago, where in 1935 he beganto work on the Federal Writers' Project. His first book, Uncle Tom'sChildren, a collection of novellas, was published in 1938 and Wrightwas awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the following year.
Wright went on to write many more essay collections, non-fictionbooks and novels, including The Outsider and Native Son, of whichparts are extracted here. Through his writing, Wright confrontedthe issues of race relations and the plight of African Americans headon. Because of this his work has often been marked by controversyand impassioned criticism, even from otherwise supportive con-temporaries, such as James Baldwin, who took particular exceptionto the character of Bigger Thomas.
After the Second World War, Richard Wright went to live in Pariswith his wife and daughters, remaining there until his death in 1960.

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