A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer

Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.

“A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.” –Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review “Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.” –Time

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, New York, native, he primarily made his home in the south of France. He is the author of several novels and books of nonfiction, includingNotes of a Native Son,Go Tell It on the Mountain,Giovanni’s Room,Another Country,Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone,If Beale Street Could Talk,Just Above My Head,The Fire Next Time,No Name in the Street, andThe Evidence of Things Not Seen, and of the poetry collectionJimmy’s Blues.

• Publisher:Beacon Press
  
• Publish Date: February 4, 2025
  
• Pages: 208
  
• Dimensions: 0.0 X 0.0 X 0.0 inches | 1.25 pounds
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Hardcover
  
• EAN/UPC: 9780807018972
  
• BISAC Categories: American – African American – American – African American -Black Studies (Global)