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James Baldwin


(James Arthur Baldwin)
USA flag (1924 - 1987)

In 1953, a young James Baldwin published Go Tell It on the Mountain, winning acclaim as a literary star and one of the leading voices of the African-American experience. Although Baldwin would spend the bulk of his adult life in France, his writing always addressed the complexities at the heart of America, viewed through the lens of the consummate outsider.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
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Novels
   Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
   Giovanni's Room (1956)
   Another Country (1962)
   The Fire Next Time (1963)
   Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968)
   If Beale Street Could Talk (1974)
   Little Man, Little Man (1976) (with Yoran Cazac)
   Just Above My Head (1979)
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Collections
   Sonny's Blues (1957)
   Going to Meet the Man (1965)
   Jimmy's Blues (poems) (1983)
   Gypsy (poems) (1989)
   James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories (1998)
   Fifty Famous People (2003)
   Vintage Baldwin (2004)
   The James Baldwin Collection (2024)
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James Baldwin recommends
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The Messenger (1963)
Charles Wright
"Beautiful... taut... THIS IS New York..."
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City Of Night (1963)
John Rechy
"He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys."

Anthologies containing stories by James Baldwin
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Poemhood (2024)
Our Black Revival
edited by
Taylor Byas, Amber McBride and Erica Martin
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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
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A Way Out of No Way (1996)
Growing Up Black in America
edited by
Jacqueline Woodson

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