This author wrote about Dave Saunders borrowing a Sears Roebuck catalog from Fat Joe so he can ask his mom to buy a gun in "The Man Who Was Almost a Man", a story in his collection Eight Men.
This author wrote about Dave Saunders borrowing a Sears Roebuck catalog from Fat Joe so he can ask his mom to buy a gun in "The Man Who Was Almost a Man", a story in his collection Eight Men. Another of his stories, in which Bobo, Lester, and Buck are killed after going swimming, is "Big Boy Leaves Home" and appears in the collection Uncle Tom's Children. In a novel by this author, a detective named Britten tries to determine whether a communist named Jan or the protagonist has killed Mary Dalton. Mary was in fact suffocated by the protagonist Bigger Thomas.  Name this African American author of Native Son.
This author wrote about Dave Saunders borrowing a Sears Roebuck catalog from Fat Joe so he can ask his mom to buy a gun in "The Man Who Was Almost a Man", a story in his collection Eight Men.
Richard (Nathaniel) Wright