The present paper is an attempt to understand the unique nature of the African American authorship with special reference to the autobiography of the African American literary stalwart Richard Wright. The two volumes of his autobiography, Black Boy (1945) and American Hunger (1977), compiled under the title The Horror and the Glory is a wonderful expression of the experiential aesthetics of a black man who tries to break his shell. It evinces how the voice of a social and emotional outcast traverses the set literary paradigms in search of a dignified identity. It not only breaks free his literary articulation from the western aesthetics but also assimilates it with the other marginalized voices of the world