The book also received criticism from some of Wright's fellow African-American writers. James Baldwin's 1948 essay, Everybody's Protest Novel, dismissed Native Son as protest fiction, as well as limited in its understanding of human character and in artistic value. The essay was collected with nine others in Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son (1955).
The book also received criticism from some of Wright's fellow African-American writers. James Baldwin's 1948 essay Everybody's Protest Novel dismissed Native Son as. protest fiction, as well as limited in its understanding of human character and in artistic value The essay was collected with nine others in Baldwin's Notes of a Nati.ve Son (1955)