James Baldwin: Collected Essays by James Baldwin

James Baldwin: Collected Essays

Library of America #98

James Baldwin with Toni Morrison (Contributor)

869 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ race reflective slow-paced
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James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debat...

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