James A. Baldwin, Author Holt McDougal $0 (125p) ISBN 978-0-03-005529-4
The Atlanta child-murders case, in which Wayne Bertram Williams was arrested in 1981, is the focus of this short, maddeningly discursive book. At the suggestion of a Playboy editor, Baldwin visited Atlanta, attended Williams's trial and spoke to...
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James Baldwin, edited and with an intro. by Randall Kenan, Pantheon, $36.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-37882-8
Baldwin's published essays have been already twice collected (The Price of the Ticket and the posthumous Library of America Collected Essays), but there are gems in this collection compiled by Kenan (Let the Dead Bury the Dead): "The Fight:...
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James A. Baldwin, Author, Toni Morrison, Editor Library of America $35 (869p) ISBN 978-1-883011-52-9
Baldwin's impassioned essays have been at least as influential as his novels in exposing the racial polarization of American society. This massive compilation reproduces in their entirety his early essay collections--Notes of a Native Son (1955),...
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James A. Baldwin, Author, Sol Stein, Author One World $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-46935-9
Legendary writer/editor/publisher Stein (The Magician; How to Grow a Novel) gives readers a backstage pass to the production of Baldwin's landmark essay collection Notes of A Native Son in this compilation of letters and memories. While only book...
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