SOURCE: "Richard Wright and the African American Autobiography Tradition," in Style, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer, 1993, pp. 271-84.
In the following essay, Andrews identifies Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger) as a defining work in the tradition of African American autobiography.
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