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Sep 21, 2021 | ISBN 9780807006566 Pre-Order
Sep 21, 2021 | ISBN 9780807006573 Pre-Order
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Sep 21, 2021 | ISBN 9780807006566
Sep 21, 2021 | ISBN 9780807006573
An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work.Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the four decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing, available for the first time in affordable paperback. Including such famous essays as Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Devil Finds Work, as well as dozens of others, this collection provides the perfect entrée into Baldwin’s prescient commentary on race, sexuality, and identity in an unjust American society.
James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America’s foremost writers. His writing explores palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-twentieth-century America. A Harlem,… More about James Baldwin
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