The Man Who Was Almost a Man Summary
Richard Wright

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The Man Who Was Almost a Man Summary

In the mid-1930s Richard Wright drafted an early version of "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" as a chapter in a novel about the childhood and adolescence of a black boxer entitled Tarbaby's Dawn. Wright never finished the novel, but in 1940 the story appeared in Harper's Bazaar under the title "Almos' a Man."

In this period Wright was at the height of his powers, publishing his three major works, Uncle Tom's...

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