Why was it banned?

Obscene language and sexual content

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](

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First Published 1940
398 pages
Author

Richard Wright


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