The three volumes of the Library of America’s edition of his writings include all six of his novels, the story collection Going to Meet the Man, and a comprehensive, career-spanning selection of his brilliant essays, including the complete texts of his early landmark collections, Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name, along with the passionate-and still resonant- The Fire Next Time. He was a versatile writer who wrote as a social critic, essayist. You dont hear as much about it as you do about his early novels. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.” With singular eloquence and unblinking sharpness of observation he lived up to his credo: “I want to be an honest man and a good writer.” James Baldwin was a celebrated twentieth century African-American literary figure. This is my favorite novel by James Baldwin it was his last one, published in 1979. “One writes,” he stated, “out of one thing only-one’s own experience.

A self-described “transatlantic commuter” who spent much of his life in France, Baldwin joined cosmopolitan sophistication with a fierce engagement in social issues. Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual, James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the.

Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual, James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African American writers of this century. James Baldwin’s (1924 1987) public role as a major African American racial spokesman of the 1950’s and 1960’s guarantees his place in American cultural history.

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