Critical Praise

"This new edition gives us a Native Son in which the key line in the key scene is restored to the great good fortune of American letters. The scene as we now have it is central both to an ongoing conversation among African-American writers and critics and to the consciousness among all American readers of what it means to live in a multi-racial society in which power splits among racial lines."

——Jack Miles, Los Angeles Times

"The Library of America has insured that most of Wright's major texts are now available as he wanted them to be read."

——Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review