Everybody's Protest Novel

“I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin’s prose. It liberated me as a writer.”—Toni Morrison“As Baldwin once said, reading allows us to recognize each other … It makes everything seem possible. May we find hope in his brilliant words.”—Imani Perry

James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a poet, and a 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-20th-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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