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Richard Nathaniel Wright became the first African American author of of a bestselling novel in 1940 with his, "Native Son," which studied the an African American youth driven into violence by the oppression and incomprehension of the white world. He wrote Native Son, Black Boy, White Man, Listen! and others. His autobiographical "Black Boy," was published five years later and is considered by most to be his best. Ralph Ellison and Jame Baldwin both took "Black Boy," as models for their novels.

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