Later Works: Black Boy (American Hunger) The Outsider

In Black Boy (American hunger) the author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years. In The Outsider Wright presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.