Vintage Baldwin - Vintage Original Author:James Baldwin Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. — “One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —The Saturday Review — In his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays and essays, James Baldwin was and remains a powerful... more »ly prophetic voice in the American literary landscape, fearlessly brooding upon issues such as race, sex, politics, and art. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American.
Vintage Baldwinincludes 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 Another Countryand the play The Amen Corner.« less