Uncle Tom’s Children

Uncle Tom’s Children, collection of four novellas by Richard Wright, published in 1938. The collection, Wright’s first published book, was awarded the 1938 Story magazine prize for the best book written by anyone involved in the WPA Federal Writers’ Project. Set in the contemporary American Deep South, each novella concerns an aspect of the lives of black people and explores their resistance to white racism and oppression. The stories are “Big Boy Leaves Home,” “Down...