James Baldwin

 

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

James Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist.

• Go Tell It on the Mountain (semi-autobiographical novel; 1953)
•  The Amen Corner (play; 1954)
•  Notes of a Native Son (essays; 1955)
•  Giovanni's Room (novel; 1956)
•  Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (essays; 1961)
•  Another Country (novel; 1962)
•  A Talk to Teachers (essay; 1963)
•  The Fire Next Time (essays; 1963)
•  Blues for Mister Charlie (play; 1964)
•  Going to Meet the Man (stories; 1965)
•  Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (novel; 1968)
•  No Name in the Street (essays; 1972)
•  If Beale Street Could Talk (novel; 1974)
•  The Devil Finds Work (essays; 1976)
•  Just Above My Head (novel; 1979)
•  Jimmy's Blues (poems; 1983)
•  The Evidence of Things Not Seen (essays; 1985)
•  The Price of the Ticket (essays; 1985)
•  The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (essays; 2010)