What is the source of the title of Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940)?

July 6, 2020October 4, 2011 by Pamela Landy

Richard Wright took the title Native Son from Nelson Algren, after the title was rejected for Algren’s novel Somebody in Boots (1935).

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