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== Works == {{div col}} === Novels === * 1953. ''[[Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)|Go Tell It on the Mountain]]'' * 1956. ''[[Giovanni's Room]]'' * 1962. ''[[Another Country (novel)|Another Country]]'' * 1968. ''[[Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone]]'' * 1974. ''[[If Beale Street Could Talk]]'' (adapted into an Academy Award-winning 2018 film of the [[If Beale Street Could Talk (film)|same name]]) * 1979. ''[[Just Above My Head]]'' * 1987. ''Harlem Quartet'' * 1998. ''Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, Going to Meet the Man'', edited by [[Toni Morrison]].<ref>[[Morrison, Toni]], ed. 1998. ''Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, Going to Meet the Man''. [[Library of America]]. {{ISBN|978-1-883011-51-2}}.</ref> * 2015. ''Later Novels: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, Just Above My Head'', edited by [[Darryl Pinckney]].<ref>[[Darryl Pinckney|Pinckney, Darryl]], ed. 2015. ''Later Novels: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, Just Above My Head''. Library of America. {{ISBN|978-1-59853-454-2}}.</ref> === Short stories === Baldwin published six short stories in various magazines between 1948 and 1960: * 1948. "Previous Condition". ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]'' * 1950. "The Death of the Prophet". ''Commentary'' * 1951. "The Outing". ''New Story'' * 1957. "[[Sonny's Blues]]". ''[[Partisan Review]]'' * 1958. "Come Out the Wilderness". ''[[Mademoiselle (magazine)|Mademoiselle]]'' * 1960. "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon". ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'' Five of these stories were collected in his 1965 collection, ''[[Going to Meet the Man]]'', along with three other stories: *"The Rockpile" *"The Man Child" *"[[Going to Meet the Man (short story)|Going to Meet the Man]]" An uncollected story, "The Death of the Prophet", was eventually collected in ''The Cross of Redemption''. === Essays === Many essays by Baldwin were published for the first time as part of collections, which also included older, individually-published works (such as above) of Baldwin's as well. These collections include: * 1955. ''[[Notes of a Native Son]]''<ref>Baldwin, James. 1961. ''[[Nobody Knows My Name|Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son]]''. US: [[Dial Press]]. {{ISBN|0-679-74473-8}}.</ref> ** "Autobiographical Notes" ** 1949. "Everybody's Protest Novel". ''Partisan Review'' (June issue) ** 1952. "Many Thousands Gone". ''Partisan Review'' ** 1955. "Life Straight in De Eye" (later retitled "Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough"). ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]'' ** 1948. "The Harlem Ghetto". ''Commentary'' ** 1948. "Journey to Atlanta". ''New Leader'' ** 1955. "Me and My House" (later retitled "Notes of a Native Son"). ''Harper's'' ** 1950. "The Negro in Paris" (later retitled "Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown"). ''Reporter'' ** 1954. "A Question of Identity". ''PR'' ** 1949. "Equal in Paris". ''PR'' ** 1953. "[[Stranger in the Village]]". ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''<ref>Baldwin, James. October 1953. [https://harpers.org/archive/1953/10/stranger-in-the-village/ "Stranger in the Village"] {{Subscription required}}. ''Harper's Magazine''.</ref><ref>Baldwin, James. [https://genius.com/James-baldwin-stranger-in-the-village-annotated "Stranger in the Village (annotated)"], edited by J. R. Garza. [[Genius (website)|''Genius'']].</ref> * 1961. ''[[Nobody Knows My Name|Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son]]'' ** 1959. "The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American". ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' ** 1957. "Princes and Powers". ''[[Encounter (magazine)|Encounter]]'' ** 1960. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem". ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' ** 1961. "A Negro Assays the Negro Mood". [[The New York Times Magazine|''New York Times Magazine'']] ** 1958. "The Hard Kind of Courage". ''Harper's Magazine'' ** 1959. "Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South". ''Partisan Review'' ** 1956. "Faulkner and Desegregation". ''[[Partisan Review]]'' ** "In Search of a Majority" (based on a 1960 address delivered at [[Kalamazoo College]]) ** 1954. "Gide as Husband and Homosexual" (later retitled "The Male Prison"). ''[[The New Leader]]'' ** 1960. "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel" (based on a 1960 address delivered at an ''Esquire Magazine'' symposium) ** 1960. "The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman" (later retitled "The Northern Protestant"). ''Esquire'' ** "Alas, Poor Richard" (two of the three parts appeared in earlier form" *** 1961. "The Survival of Richard Wright". (Later retitled "Eight Men"). ''Reporter'' *** 1961. "Richard Wright" (later retitled "The Exile"). ''[[Encounter (magazine)|Encounter]]''<ref>"Richard Wright, tel que je l'ai connu" (French translation). ''[[Preuves (magazine)|Preuves]]''. February 1961.</ref> ** 1961. "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy Norman Mailer". ''Esquire'' * 1963. ''[[The Fire Next Time]]'' ** 1962. "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind". ''[[The New Yorker]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Baldwin|first=James|date=November 17, 1962|title=Letter from a Region in My Mind|magazine=The New Yorker|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind|access-date=June 9, 2020}}</ref> ** 1962. "My Dungeon Shook: A Letter to My Nephew". ''[[The Progressive]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Baldwin|first=James|date=December 1, 1962|title=A Letter to My Nephew|work=The Progressive|url=https://progressive.org/magazine/letter-nephew/|access-date=June 9, 2020}}</ref> * 1972. ''[[No Name in the Street]]'' * 1976. ''[[The Devil Finds Work]]'' — a book-length essay published by [[Dial Press]] * 1985. ''[[The Evidence of Things Not Seen]]'' * 1985. ''[[The Price of the Ticket]]'' (This book is a collection of Baldwin's writings on race. Many of the items included are reprinted from Baldwin's first five books of nonfiction, but several are collected here for the first time: ** "The Price of the Ticket" ** 1948. "Lockridge: The American Myth". ''New Leader'' ** 1956. "The Crusade of Indignation". ''[[The Nation]]'' ** 1959. "On Catfish Row: ''Porgy and Bess'' in the Movies". ''Commentary'' ** 1960. "They Can't Turn Back". ''Mademoiselle'' ** 1961. "The Dangerous Road before Martin Luther King". ''Harper's'' ** 1961. "The New Lost Generation". ''Esquire'' ** 1962. "The Creative Process". ''Creative America'' ** 1962. "Color". ''|Esquire'' ** 1963. "A Talk to Teachers"<ref>Baldwin, James. December 21, 1963. "[http://richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm A Talk to Teachers]" ''[[Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)|The Saturday Review]]''.</ref> ** 1964. "Nothing Personal" (originally text for a book of photographs by [[Richard Avedon]]) ** 1964. "Words of a Native Son". ''[[Playboy]]'' ** 1965. "The American Dream and the American Negro" (based on remarks by Baldwin made in his debate with [[William F. Buckley]]) ** 1965. "The White Man's Guilt". ''[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]'' ** 1966. "A Report from Occupied Territory". ''The Nation'' ** 1967. "[[Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White]]". ''New York Times Magazine''<ref>Baldwin, James. April 9, 1967. "[http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-antisem.html Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White]". [[The New York Times Magazine|''New York Times Magazine'']]. Retrieved June 22, 2020.</ref> ** 1968. "White Racism or World Community?" ''Ecumenical Review'' ** 1969. "Sweet Lorraine". ''Esquire'' ** 1976. "How One Black Man Came To Be an American: A Review of Roots". ''The New York Times Book Review'' ** 1977. "An Open Letter to Mr. Carter". ''The New York Times'' ** 1977. "Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone". ''New York''. ** 1979. "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" ''The New York Times'' ** 1979. "An Open Letter to the Born Again". ''The Nation'' ** 1980. "Dark Days". ''Esquire'' ** 1980. "Notes on the House of Bondage". ''The Nation'' ** 1985. "Here Be Dragons" (also titled "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood"). ''Playboy'' * 1998. ''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'', edited by Toni Morrison.<ref>[[Morrison, Toni]], ed.1998. ''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''. Library of America. {{ISBN|978-1-883011-52-9}}.</ref> ** 1947. "Smaller than Life". ''The Nation'' ** 1947. "History as Nightmare". ''[[New Leader]]'' ** 1948. "The Image of the Negro". ''Commentary'' ** 1949. "Preservation of Innocence". ''Zero'' ** 1951. "The Negro at Home and Abroad". ''Reporter'' ** 1959. "Sermons and Blues". ''The New York Times Book Review'' ** 1964. "This Nettle, Danger...". ''Show'' ** 1965. "On the Painter [[Beauford Delaney]]". ''Transition'' **1977. "Last of the Great masters". ''The New York Times Book Review'' **1984. "Introduction to ''Notes of a Native Son''" * 2010. ''The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings''<ref>Baldwin, James. [2010] 2011. ''The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings'', edited by [[Randall Kenan|R. Kenan]]. US: [[Vintage International]]. {{ISBN|978-0307275967}}. {{ASIN|0307275965}}.</ref> ** 1959. "Mass Culture and the Creative Artist: Some Personal Notes". ''Culture for the Millions''. 1961 ** 1959. "A Word from Writer Directly to Reader". ''Fiction of the Fifties'' ** 1961. From ''Nationalism, Colonialism, and The United States: One Minte to Twelve – A Forum'' ** 1966. "Theatre: The Negro In and Out". ''Negro Digest'' ** 1961. "Is ''A Raisin in the Sun'' a Lemon in the Dark?" ''Tone'' ** 1962. "As Much Truth as One Can Bear". ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' ** 1962. "[[Geraldine Page]]: Bird of Light". ''Show'' ** 1962. "From What's the Reason Why?: A Symposium by Best-Selling Authors". ''The New York Times Book Review'' ** 1963. "The Artist's Struggle for Integrity". ''[[Liberation (magazine)|Liberation]]'' ** 1963. "We Can Change the Country". ''Liberation'' ** 1964. "Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare". ''The Observer'' ** 1964. "The Uses of the Blues". ''Playboy'' ** 1964. "What Price Freedom?" ''Freedomways'' ** 1966. "The White Problem in America". ''100 Years of Emancipation'' ** 1968. "Black Power". ''The Guardian'' ** 1969. "The Price May Be Too High". ''The New York Times'' ** 1969. "The Nigger We Invent". ''Integrated Education'' ** 1974. "Speech from the Soledad Rally" ** 1976. "A Challenge to Bicentennial Candidates". ''Los Angeles Times'' ** 1978. "The News from All the Northern Cities Is, to Understate It, Grim; the State of the Union Is Catastrophic". ''The New York Times'' ** 1979. "''Lorraine Hansberry'' at the Summit". ''Freedomways'' ** 1979. "Of the Sorrow Songs: The Cross of Redemption". ''[[Edinburgh Review#New Edinburgh Review (1969–1984) and Edinburgh Review (1984–2014)|The Edinburgh Review]]'' ** 1980. "Black English: A Dishonest Argument". ''Black English and the Education of Black Children and Youth'' ** 1983. "This Far and No Further". ''Time Capsule'' ** 1984. "On Being 'White'... and Other Lies". ''[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]]'' ** 1988. "Blacks and Jews". ''[[The Black Scholar]]'' ** 1987. "To Crush a Serpent". ''Playboy'' ** 1963. "The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston". ''Nugget'' ** 1968. "Sidney Poitier". ''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]]'' ** 1963. "Letters from a Journey". ''Harper's'' ** 1967. "The International War Crimes Tribunal". ''[[Freedomways]]'' ** 1967. "Anti-Semitism and Black Power". ''Freedomways'' ** 1971. "An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis". ''The New York Review of Books'' ** 1982. "A Letter to Prisoners". ''Inside/Out'' ** 1985. "The Fire This Time: Letter to the Bishop". ''The New Statesman'' ** 1963. "Envoi" to ''A Quarter Century of Unamericana 1938–1963; A Tragico-Comical Memorabilia of HUAC'' ** 1965. Preface to ''Memoirs of a Bastard Angel'' by [[Harold Norse]] ** 1967. Preface to ''The Negro in New York: An Informal Social history, 1626–1940'' ** 1970. Preface to ''Daddy Was a Number Runner'' by [[Louise Meriwether]] ** 1978. Preface to ''A Lonely Rage'' by [[Bobby Seale]] ** 1947. "Maxim Gorki as Artist". ''The Nation'' ** 1947. "Battle Hymn". ''[[New Leader]]'' ** 1947. "When the War Hit Brownsville". ''New Leader'' ** 1947. "Dead Hand of Caldwell". ''New Leader'' ** 1947. "Without Grisly Gaiety". ''New Leader'' ** 1948. "Bright World Darkened". ''New Leader'' ** 1948. "Charge within a Channel". ''New Leader'' ** 1948. "Modern Rover Boys". ''New Leader'' ** 1948. "Literary Grab bag". ''New Leader'' ** 1948. "Present and Future". ''New Leader'' ** 1949. "Too Late, Too Late". ''Commentary'' ** 1959. "War Lord of the Crocodiles". ''New York Times Book World'' ** 1961. "Views of a Near-Sighted Cannoneer". ''The Village Voice'' ** 1967. "God's Country". ''The New York Review of Books'' ** 1982. "Roger Wilkins: A Black Man's Odyssey in White America". ''The Washington Post Book World'' ==== Contributions to anthologies ==== * 1961. "James Baldwin on the Negro Actor". ''Urbanite''. Reprinted in ''Anthology of the American Negro in the Theatre'' * 1969. "From Dreams of Love to Dreams of Terror". ''The Los Angeles Free Press''. Reprinted in ''Natural Enemies? Youth and the Clash of Generations'' * 1971. "A Talk to Harlem Teachers", in ''Harlem, U.S.A.'' * 1973. "Compressions: L'Homme et La Machine", in ''Cesar: Compressions d'or'' by [[Cesar Baldaccini]] * 1977. "In Search of a Basis for Mutual Understanding and Racial Harmony", in ''The Nature of a Humane Society'' ==== Uncollected essays ==== * 1953. "On an Author: Excerpts from Letters". ''New York Herald Tribune Book Review'' * 1953. "Two Protests against Protest". ''Perspectives USA'' * 1954. "Paris Letter: A Question of Identity". ''PR'' * 1961. "They Will Wait No More". ''Negro Digest'' * 1962. "The Negro's Role in American Culture: A Symposium". ''Negro Digest'' * 1963. "The Negro Writer in America: A Symposium". ''Negro Digest'' * 1963. "At the Root of the Negro Problem". ''[[Time Magazine]]'' * 1963. "There's a Bill Due That Has to Be Paid". ''Life'' * 1963. "'Pour Liberer les Blancs...' (Propos Recueillis par [[François Bondy]]". ''Prevues'' * 1964. "The Creative Dilemma: The War of an Artist with His Society Is a Lover's War". ''Sat R'' * 1965. "What Kind of Men Cry?". ''Ebony'' (written with [[Harry Belafonte]], [[Sidney Poitier]], and others) * 1968. "A Letter to Americans". ''Freedomways'' * 1968. "Baldwin Excoriates Church for Hypocritical Stance". ''Afro-American'' * 1969. "Our Divided Society: A Challenge to Religious Education". ''Religious Education'' * 1970. "Dear Sister...". ''[[The Guardian]]'' === Plays and poems === * 1954. ''[[The Amen Corner]]'' (play) * 1964. ''[[Blues for Mister Charlie]]'' (play) * 1972. ''One Day, When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"'' (screenplay) * 1983. ''Jimmy's Blues'' (poems) * 1990. ''A Lover's Question'' (album based on poems by Baldwin). [[Les Disques du Crépuscule]] – TWI 928–2. * 2014. ''Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems''.<ref>Baldwin, James. 2014. ''Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems''. US: [[Beacon Press]]. {{ASIN|0807084867}}.</ref> (poems) * 2016. ''Baldwin for Our Times: Writings from James Baldwin for an Age of Sorrow and Struggle'', with notes and introduction by Rich Blint.<ref>Blint, Rich, notes and introduction. 2016. ''Baldwin for Our Times: Writings from James Baldwin for an Age of Sorrow and Struggle''.</ref> (poems and essays) === Collaborative works === * 1964. ''Nothing Personal'', with [[Richard Avedon]] (photography) * 1971. ''[[A Rap on Race]]'', with [[Margaret Mead]] * 1971. ''A Passenger from the West'', narrative with Baldwin conversations, by [[Nabile Farès]]; appended with long-lost interview. * 1972. ''One Day, When I Was Lost'' (based on [[Alex Haley]]'s ''[[The Autobiography of Malcolm X]]'') * 1973. ''[[A Dialogue]]'', with [[Nikki Giovanni]] * 1976. ''[[Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood]]'', with Yoran Cazac * 2004. ''Native Sons'', with [[Sol Stein]] {{Div col end}}
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