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Yet before he was 40, Wright dominated literary America, publishing four books in seven years, each a triumph in its genre. His first novel, ''Native Son'' (1940), sold at the rate of 2,000 copies a day, making Wright the first best-selling black writer in the country's history. ''Black Boy'' (1945), his memoir of his Southern childhood, was a bigger success, selling more than a half-million copies.
âThe Son,â by Philipp Meyer. Bad historical novels â which is to say, most historical novels â are bad in exactly the same way: stuffed with the usual roguesâ gallery of historically certified villains, theyâre banal costume dramas, predestined in their epiphanies and as insufferable in their virtue as a teenage vegan.