Book Description
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written. "He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Notes of a Native Son FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
FROM THE CRITICS
Langston Hughes
A straight-from-the-shoulder writerwriting about the troubled problems of this troubled earthwith an illuminating intensity that should influence for the better all who ponder on the things books say....Few American writers handle words more effectively in the essay form than James Baldwin. —The New York Times Book Review
Langston Hughes
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....Few American writers handle words more effectively in the essay form than James Baldwin. -- The New York Times Book Review
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