Richard Wright's famous autobiography! (First Edition)

”At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase ... a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering.”—Richard Wright

Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his difficult youth in the South under Jim Crow in the early 20th century.