JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
Baldwin established himself as the indispensable voice of the Civil Rights era with such landmark novels as GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN (1953), GIOVANNI'S ROOM (1956), and the essay collections NOTES OF A NATIVE SON (1955) and NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME (1961). His fiction and essays explored palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western society, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions. THE FIRE NEXT TIME (1963), perhaps the most influential of his writings, is a penetrating analysis of America's racial divide and an impassioned call to "end the racial nightmare . . . and change the history of the world." Baldwin's passionate and eloquent work continues to be relevant to this day, especially in his dramatizing of the unequal treatment of black men by the police and the justice system, his nuanced depictions of the black family, and his explorations of sexuality.
This torrent also includes I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2017), a companion volume to the documentary directed by Raoul Peck and currently in cinemas, drawing together Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews.
The FBI's large dossier on Baldwin (4.5 GB) can be found at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/JamesBaldwinFBIFile
The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:
== FICTION ==
* Another Country (Vintage, 1993)
* Giovanni's Room (Vintage, 2013)
* Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin, 1991)
* Going to Meet the Man (Vintage, 1995)
* If Beale Street Could Talk (Penguin, 1974)
* Just Above My Head (Penguin, 1979)
* Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (Vintage, 1998)
== POETRY & DRAMA ==
* Amen Corner, The: A Play (Vintage, 1998)
* Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play (Vintage, 1995)
* Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems (Beacon, 2014)
* Jimmy's Blues: Selected Poems (St Martins, 1985)
* One Day When I Was Lost (Vintage, 2007)
== ESSAYS & NON-FICTION ==
* Art of Fiction, The [interview] (Paris Review, Spring 1984) -- PDF
* Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998) -- PDF
* Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (Pantheon, 2010). Randall Kenan, ed.
* Devil Finds Work, The (Vintage, 2011)
* Dialogue, A [with Nikki Giovanni] (Lippincott, 1973) -- PDF
* Evidence of Things Not Seen, The (HRW, 1985) -- PDF
* Fire Next Time, The (Vintage, 1993)
* I Am Not Your Negro (Vintage, 2017). Raoul Peck, ed.
* Last Interview & Other Conversations, The (Melville House, 2014)
* Native Sons [with Sol Stein] (One World, 2004)
* No Name in the Street (Vintage, 2007)
* Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (Vintage, 1993)
* Notes of a Native Son (Beacon, 2012)
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