For 10 points, name this author of Black Boy and Native Son.
In a short story by this author, the narrator kicks a dead baby and, after opening a safe, witnesses a night watchman being beaten by police and committing suicide. That character digs into rooms from the sewers as he hides from the police. This author of "The Man who Lived Underground" was criticized by a contemporary in the essay "Everybody's Protest Novel." He wrote a novel that opens with a four year old setting a house on fire, and that character joins the Communists in the section "The Horror and the Glory." Another novel of his sees a body hidden in a furnace after the accidental smothering of Mary Dalton by black chauffeur Bigger Thomas. For 10 points, name this author of Black Boy and Native Son.
In a short story by this author, the narrator kicks a dead baby and, after opening a safe, witnesses a night watchman being beaten by police and committing suicide.
Richard Wright