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Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781101908471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. 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His first novel, \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews and immediately was recognized as establishing a profound and permanent new voice in American letters. \"Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else,\" he remarked. Baldwin's play \u003ci\u003eThe Amen Corner\u003c\/i\u003e was first performed at Howard University in 1955 (it was staged commercially in the 1960s), and his acclaimed collection of essays Notes of a Native Son, was published the same year. A second collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eNobody Knows My Name\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1961 between his novels \u003ci\u003eGiovanni's Room\u003c\/i\u003e (1956) and \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e (1961). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe appearance of \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e in 1963, just as the civil rights movement was exploding across the American South, galvanized the nation and continues to reverberate as perhaps the most prophetic and defining statement ever written of the continuing costs of Americans' refusal to face their own history. It became a national bestseller, and Baldwin was featured on the cover of Time magazine. Critic Irving Howe said that \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e achieved \"heights of passionate exhortation unmatched in modern American writing.\" In 1964 \u003ci\u003eBlues for Mister Charlie\u003c\/i\u003e, his play based on the murder of a young black man in Mississippi, was produced by the Actors Studio in New York. That same year, Baldwin was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and collaborated with the photographer Richard Avedon on \u003ci\u003eNothing Personal\u003c\/i\u003e, a series of portraits of America intended as a eulogy for the slain Medger Evers. 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He also adapted Alex Haley's \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Malcolm X\u003c\/i\u003e into \u003ci\u003eOne Day When I Was Lost.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the remaining years of his life, Baldwin produced a volume of poetry, \u003ci\u003eJimmy's Blues\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), and a final collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Price of the Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e. Baldwin's last work, \u003ci\u003eThe Evidence of Things Not Seen\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), was prompted by a series of child murders in Atlanta. Baldwin was made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor in June 1986. Among the other awards he received are a Eugene F. 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His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVintage Baldwin includes the short story \"Sonny's Blues\"; the galvanizing civil rights examination \"My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation\"; the essays \"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem,\" \"The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,\" and \"Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South\"; and excerpts from the novel \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e and the play The Amen Corner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.\" --Michael Ondaatje\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.16w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400033942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2004 pg. 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Baldwin \u003c\/b\u003e(1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain, \u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time \u003c\/i\u003ewere bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Baldwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49910108979428,"sku":"9781400033942","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781400033942.jpg?v=1789805241"},{"product_id":"james-baldwin-early-novels-stories-loa-97-go-tell-it-on-the-mountain-giovannis-room-another-country-going-to-meet-the-man-james-baldwin-hardcover","title":"James Baldwin: Early Novels \u0026 Stories (Loa #97): Go Tell It on the Mountain \/ Giovanni's Room \/ Another Country \/ Going to Meet the Man -- James Baldwin, Hardcover","description":"Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e (1953), tells the story, rooted in Baldwin's own experience, of a preacher's son coming of age in 1930's Harlem. Ten years in the writing, its exploration of religious, sexual, and generational conflicts was described by Baldwin as an attempt to exorcise something, to find out what happened to my father, what happened to all of us. \u003ci\u003eGiovanni's Room \u003c\/i\u003e(1956) is a searching, and in its day controversial, treatment of the tragic self-delusions of a young American expatriate at war with his own homosexuality. \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), a wide-ranging exploration of America's racial and sexual boundaries, depicts the suicide of a gifted jazz musician and its ripple effect on those who knew him. Complex in structure and turbulent in mood, it is in many ways Baldwin's most ambitious novel. \u003ci\u003eGoing to Meet the Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1965) collects Baldwin's short fiction, including the masterful Sonny's Blues, the unforgettable portrait of a jazz musician struggling with drug addiction in which Baldwin came closest to defining his goal as a writer: For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA \u003c\/b\u003eis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.23h x 5.30w x 1.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781883011512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAge Range:\u003c\/b\u003e 18-UP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/1998 pg. 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/1998 pg. 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/29\/1998 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the novel \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e (1953), a distillation of his own experiences as a preacher's son in 1930s Harlem, and the essay collection \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), \u003cb\u003e James Baldwin \u003c\/b\u003e(1924-1987) established himself as a prophetic voice of his era. Some such voices may grow fainter with the passage of time, but Baldwin remains an inescapable presence, not only a chronicler of his epoch but a thinker who helped shape it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eToni Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e, volume editor, is the author of a number of award-winning novels, including \u003ci\u003eLove\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSong of Solomon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSula\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.","brand":"James Baldwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50539597889764,"sku":"9781883011512","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781883011512.jpg?v=1790323329"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/collections\/james-baldwin.oembed?page=2","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}