The Harlem Ghetto

“A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.”—Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review“He named for me the things you feel but couldn’t utter… . Jimmy’s essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America’s foremost writers. His writing explores palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-twentieth-century America. A Harlem, New York, native, he primarily made his home in the south of France. He is the author of several novels and books of nonfiction, including Notes of a Native Son, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, Just Above My Head, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen, and of the poetry collection Jimmy’s Blues.

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