The Nelson Algren Museum plans to celebrate Richard Wright s masterpiece Native Son, which the Modern Library and TIME Magazine both ranked as one of the best novels of the 20th century.
The museum in Gary s Miller Beach neighborhood will host Ivy Tech Professor, youth advocate and TEDx curator Gary McKenya Dilworth at 4 p.m. on May 16 for a lecture on Native Son  at the new Nelson Algren 616 Sound Stage at 616 S. Lake Street in Miller. The museum s two-part retrospective is titled Richard Wright s Native Son, 80 Years Later. We ll provide a framework of how to approach the book and then follow up with a book discussion Sunday, June 27, also at 4 p.m., said Sue Rutsen, co-founder of the Nelson Algren Museum of Miller Beach.