Richard Wright - The Richard Wright Autobiography Covers lyrics

The first version of Richard Wright's autobiography Black Boy was published in 1945. The book was 228 pages. The 2006 edition of Wright's autobiography -- with a slightly expanded title Black Boy (American Hunger) -- is 448 pages and includes a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones. Over the decades, the book went through various editorial changes and extensions. The publication and reprinting processes of Wright's autobiography includes a fascinating visual history, especially the different covers of the book. What follows are examples and descriptions of several of the covers. - 1945 first edition. Harper and Row. - 1951 edition. Signet. - 1959 edition. Ace Books. - 1963 edition. Signet. - 1966 edition. Perennial Cla**ic, Harper & Row. - 1966 edition. Perennial Cla**ic. - 1970 album cover. - 1977 American Hunger edition. Harper & Row. - 1986 edition. Longman Imprint Books. - 1989 edition. Perennial Library, Harper & Row. - 1993 edition. HarperPerennial. - 1998 edition. Perennial Cla**ics. - 2005 edition. HarperCollins. - 2006 edition. HarperPerennial. - 2008 edition. HarperPerennial Modern Cla**ics.