Native-son


noun
1.
a person born in a particular place:
The delegation from Iowa nominated a native son.
noun
1.
a novel (1940) by Richard Wright.

(1940) A novel by African-American author Richard Wright about a young black man whose life is destroyed by poverty and racism.

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