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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.
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era.