But what's with the "wrongly accused of murder" bit? As I recall the murder of the girl and the incineration of her body was rather graphic. That it was an accident or misunderstanding does not excuse his behavior. He was a victim of a number of injustices, but he certainly committed the crime.
Patrick King
--- On Wed, 1/28/09, Michael S. Chong <menglish47@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Michael S. Chong <menglish47@yahoo.com>
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Native Son influenced by Woolrich?
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 5:40 PM
> I found the following browsing through the Mysteryfile
> website:
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> Native Son’s basic storyline of a young man
> wrongly accused of murder and running headlong through
> “streets dark
> with something more than night” was clearly inspired by
> Woolrich’s
> powerful suspense thriller “Dusk to Dawn” (Black Mask,
> December 1937; collected in Nightwebs, 1971). - Francis M.
> Nevins
> http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=560
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> I have always thought Native Son read like a noir.
> Francis M. Nevins, a Woolrich biographer, says that Wright
> was a Black Mask reader. So along with Chester Himes, that
> makes two great protest writers sparked by crime fiction.
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