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Nobody knows my name : more notes of a native son / James Baldwin.

by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.

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Vintage Books, 1993.

305.896073 B181n

Blacks -- United States.

Novelists, Black -- 20th century -- Essays.

Authors, Black -- 20th century -- Essays.

Poets, Black -- 20th century -- Essays.

United States -- Race relations.

9780679744733 (pbk.)

0679744738 (pbk.)

1st Vintage international ed.

xiv, 241 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published: New York : Dial Press, 1961.

The discovery of what it means to be an American -- Princes and powers -- Fifth Avenue, uptown: A letter from Harlem -- East River, downtown: Postscript to A letter from Harlem -- A fly in the buttermilk -- Nobody knows my name: A letter from the South -- Faulkner and desegregation -- In search of a majority -- Notes for a hypothetical novel -- The male prison -- The Northern Protestant -- Alas, poor Richard -- The black boy looks at the white boy.

Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers. James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.

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