James Baldwin Works

One of our genius King

Baldwin in 1969
Born	(1924-08-02)August 2, 1924 Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Died	December 1, 1987(1987-12-01) (aged 63) Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Nationality	American
Occupation	novelist playwright activist
Years active	1947–1985

Baldwin (right of center) with Hollywood actors Charlton Heston and Marlon Brando at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Sidney Poitier (rear) and Harry Belafonte (right of Brando) can also be seen in the crowd.

• 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)
• Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems (poems; 2014)

Together with others:

• Nothing Personal (with Richard Avedon, photography) (1964)
• A Rap on Race (with Margaret Mead) (1971)
• A Passenger From The West (in English), narrative with Baldwin conversations, by Nabile Farès; long-lost interview appended (1971)
• One Day When I Was Lost (orig.: A. Haley; 1972)
• A Dialogue (with Nikki Giovanni) (1973)
• Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood (with Yoran Cazac, 1976)
• Native Sons (with Sol Stein, 2004)

Collections

• Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, Going to Meet the Man (Toni Morrison, ed.) (Library of America, 1998), ISBN 978-1-883011-51-2.
• Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, The Devil Finds Work, Other Essays (Toni Morrison, ed.) (Library of America, 1998), ISBN 978-1-883011-52-9.
• Later Novels: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, Just Above My Head (Darryl Pinckney, ed.) (Library of America, 2015), ISBN 978-1-59853-454-2.
• Baldwin for Our Times: Writings from James Baldwin for an Age of Sorrow and Struggle. Notes and Introduction by Rich Blint (2016).