![]() ![]() Dalton, a wealthy white man whose daughter, Mary, soon takes an interest in the young black man. Native Son follows Bigger Thomas, a poor black man living in Chicago during the Great Depression. But as source material, it’s grisly and heavy-handed, a tale that originally was met with either horror or adulation. It might seem, then, that Wright’s novel is the kind of story that lends itself easily-or at least fruitfully-to visual renderings. By 2014, there had been yet another Native Son film and two more plays. ![]() Ten years later, Wright played his own protagonist in an unfortunate Argentinian film adaptation, Sangre negra (“black blood”). In March 1941, Wright and the playwright Paul Green staged a contentious, Orson Welles–directed production at New York’s St. Just over a year after the author Richard Wright published his first novel, Native Son, in March 1940, the text was adapted for the first time. ![]() This article contains spoilers for Native Son. ![]()
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