Editing Native Son (section)

== Title ==
''Native Son'' was the original title of Chicago writer [[Nelson Algren]]'s first novel, ''[[Somebody in Boots]]'', based on a piece of doggerel about the first Texan. Algren and Wright had met at Chicago's [[John Reed Club]] circa 1933 and later worked together at the [[Federal Writers' Project]] in Chicago.<ref>{{cite web|last=Taylor|first=David A.|title=Literary Cubs, Canceling Out Each Other's Reticence|url=http://theamericanscholar.org/literary-cubs-canceling-out-each-others-reticence/|work=The American Scholar|date=March 2009|publisher=Phi Beta Kappa Society|access-date=September 6, 2011}}</ref> According to Bettina Drew's 1989 biography ''Nelson Algren'':
''A Life on the Wild Side'', he bequeathed the title "Native Son" to Wright.