A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era.
James Baldwin was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel, Go
Tell It on the Mountain (1953), which evokes his experiences as a
boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwin's second
novel, Giovanni's Room (1956) has become a landmark of gay
literature and Another Country (1962) caused a literary sensation.
His searing essay collections Notes of a Native Son (1955) and
Nobody Knows My Name (1961) contain many of the works that made him
an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin
published several other collections of non-fiction, including The
Fire Next Time (1963) and No Name in the Street (1972). His short
stories are collected in Going to Meet the Man (1965). His later
works include the novels Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
(1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) and Just Above My Head
(1979).
James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships- a Eugene F.
Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim
Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship and a Ford Foundation
grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He
died in 1987 in France
Opens with a knock-out punch . . . the command of an audience and
the rhetorical flourishes . . . are everywhere in his writing, but
particularly in his essays, which contain a mix of registers from
an intimate conversational tone to speechifying oratory
*The Times*
A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled
problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity that
should influence for the better all who ponder on the things books
say
*The New York Times*
Powerful . . . I wish I could press this book into the hands of
every American - actually, every human.
*Guardian*
Edgy and provocative . . . entertainingly satirical
*Guardian*
A classic . . . Take the words out of the 1950s, when they were
published, and they could apply to the women in pink hats, the
scientists, the Black Lives Matter activists, the climate-change
believers and the LGBTQ-rights supporters who have flooded the
streets of Washington this year
*Washington Post*
A classic ... In a divided America, James Baldwin's fiery critiques
reverberate anew
*Washington Post*
Cemented his reputation as a cultural seer ... Notes of a Native
Son endures as his defining work, and his greatest
*Time*
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