The unnamed narrator, son of a Black mother and a white Southern gentleman, learns his race only at school. His life takes him from Connecticut to Atlanta, the Florida cigar factories, the ragtime clubs of New York and the salons of Europe, until a lynching he witnesses drives him to vanish into white society.
Published anonymously in 1912 and taken by many readers for a true memoir, it is a cornerstone of African American fiction. Download the free EPUB.