His first novel, about a day in the life of postal worker Jake Johnson, was
His first novel, about a day in the life of postal worker Jake Johnson, was published posthumously as Lawd Today. He included such stories as "The Man Who Lived Underground" and "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" in Eight Men, and wrote about Cross Damon in his existential novel The Outsider. Bobo is burned alive in this author's short story "Big Boy Leaves Home," which is featured in his collection Uncle Tom's Children. In another of his novels, Boris Max's arguments against institutionalized racism fail to save his client from being sentenced to death for the murder of Mary Dalton. FTP, name this American author who wrote about Bigger Thomas in Native Son.
His first novel, about a day in the life of postal worker Jake Johnson, was published posthumously as Lawd Today.
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