Black Boy - American Hunger : a Record of Childhood and Youth

Hardcover book published in 1947, second printing. Dark blue cover with red lettering and decoration. The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York. Introductory Note by Dorothy Canfield Fisher in Arlington, Vermont. The book is sometimes considered a fictionalized autobiography or an autobiographical novel because of its use of novelistic techniques. Black Boy describes vividly Wright's often harsh, hardscrabble boyhood and youth in rural Mississippi and in Memphis, Tenn.