Trudier Harris's Bigger: A Literary Life

Finally, a sustained scholarly exploration of a character who, for over eight decades, has haunted our literary and cultural imaginations. Few Black fictional characters from literature have been more widely discussed and analyzed for an extended period of time than the main character from Richard Wright’s 1940 Native Son. 

Scholar Trudier Harris, one of our leading experts on Black literature, takes us on a journey into the worlds of Richard Wright’s Bigger Thomas.

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Related:

• Trudier Harris’s prolific scholarship on African American Novels 

• Episodes of Remarkable Receptions