Richard Wright and the Library Card

Review
By Booklist

Miller focuses his story on the stirring final chapters of Wright’s autobiography Black Boy (1945), in which he describes his struggle to get books from the whites-only library in Memphis. Christie’s powerful impressionistic paintings in acrylic and colored pencil show the harsh racism in the Jim Crow South… There are also strong portraits of Wright reading avidly through the night, lost in the world of books.