1938: Harper & Brothers publishes Richard Wright’s debut story collection…
Harper & Brothers publishes Richard Wright’s debut story collection, Uncle Tom’s Children. More
Black Boy
A powerful and eloquent autobiography that has sold more than a million copies since publication. More
Geronimo Johnson
I write to unread what has been written about me in error and with malice. More
Stride Toward Freedom
Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memoir of the Montgomery bus boycott. More
Native Son
Wright’s unsparing reflection on what it means to be black in America. More
The White Tiger
Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. More
The Known World
The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that examines the troubling complexities of slavery. More
Their Eyes Were Watching God
One of the most widely read and acclaimed novels in the canon of African-American literature. More
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece, and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction. More