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James Baldwin Festival of Words
James Baldwin Festival of Words Chattanooga Theatre Centre Chattanooga Tennessee A celebration of Black literary excellence taking place in Chattanooga, TN. This new festival features a Black author m...
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations James Baldwin 9781612194004 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwi...
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance James Baldwin 9781636811321 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in h...
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Herb Boyd 9780743293082 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). ...
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings Thumper Book Review It has not been said for a long time. I’m glad to be able to say, James Baldwin has a new book out! The new collection of es...
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays James Baldwin 9780807016947 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press “I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin’s prose. It liberated me as a writer.”—Toni Morrison Th...
James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 9780593689714 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Celebrating the Centenary of ...
Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer
Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer Quartez Harris 9780316483933 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Discover the story of young James Baldwin in this ode to th...
James Baldwin
James Baldwin 0000000121446704 “No white critic can judge my work. I’d be a fool if I depended upon that judgement.” James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987), born in Harlem, NY, was a ren...
The Gospel according to James Baldwin: What America’s Great Prophet Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Identity
The Gospel according to James Baldwin: What America’s Great Prophet Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Identity Greg Garrett 9781626985391 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books James Baldwin’s writing of...
The James Baldwin Collection
The James Baldwin Collection James Baldwin 9781598537932 Nonfiction Library of America Library of America For the first time in a collector’s boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America ...
Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin
Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin James Baldwin 9780870236778 Nonfiction University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Press This book is a transcription ...
I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film
I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film James Baldwin and Raoul Peck 9780525434696 Nonfiction Vintage International Series Penguin Random House Learn about the Oscar-Nominated...
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780525575320 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the...
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin Hilton Als 9781954947092 Nonfiction Dancing Foxes Press/Brooklyn Museum Dancing Foxes Press Baldwin’s life and legacy as remembered by a panthe...
Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou...
You Mean It or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge
You Mean It or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge Jamie McGhee and Adam Hollowell 9781506478944 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media After a speech at UMass Amherst on February 28, 1984, Ja...
Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin
Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin Michelle Meadows 9780063273474 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Celebrate James Baldwin’s one-hundredth birthday anniversary with ...
Baldwin: A Love Story
Baldwin: A Love Story Nicholas Boggs 9780374178710 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals...
The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde Rima Vesely-Flad 9798889842583 Nonfiction North Atlantic Books North Atlantic Books Black, queer, feminist, Buddhist: The Fire Inside casts...
Encounter on the Seine: Essays
Encounter on the Seine: Essays James Baldwin 9780807018675 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press “James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harle...
James Baldwin and Raoul Peck
James Baldwin and Raoul Peck MULTIPLE James Baldwin and Raoul Peck are influential figures in literature and filmmaking respectively. Baldwin, a renowned novelist and essayist, and Peck, an acclaimed...
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds James Baldwin and Toni Morrison 9781883011529 Non...
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays James Baldwin 9780807018651 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the real...
Nothing Personal
Nothing Personal James Baldwin 9780807006429 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts ...
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100 Roberto Carlos Garcia mosaic44 Nonfiction Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine I first came to James Baldwin’s work by reading his...
Lewis V. Baldwin
Lewis V. Baldwin 0000000109176289 Born in 1949, Lewis V. Baldwin is a civil rights activist and professor emeritus of religious studies at Vanderbilt University. Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr., ...
Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years
Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years Kadija Sesay and Cheryl Robson 9781913641412 Nonfiction Aurora Metro Books Aurora Metro Publications Encounters with James Baldwin celebrates the c...
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
The Evidence of Things Not Seen James Baldwin 9781250844897 Nonfiction Holt McDougal Macmillan Publishers Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in...
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin 9780807006115 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Am...
James Baldwin and Randall Kenan
James Baldwin and Randall Kenan MULTIPLE James Baldwin and Randall Kenan are influential authors known for their contributions to literature, exploring themes of race, sexuality, and social issues. T...
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison MULTIPLE James Baldwin and Toni Morrison are influential authors known for their profound works on racial and social issues. Both have significantly contributed to Ame...
The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin
The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin Michele Elam 9781107618183 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin offers fresh insight int...
The Top 7 American Writers of the 20th Century
The Top 7 American Writers of the 20th Century Troy Johnson Article [caption id="attachment_948" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="AALBC.com Founder, Troy Johnson on James Baldwin"][/caption] ...
You’ve Got to Tell the World How to Treat You: And Other Essential Quotes
You’ve Got to Tell the World How to Treat You: And Other Essential Quotes James Baldwin 9780807026472 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press In these troubling times when readers are seeking hope and pu...
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Deluxe Edition)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Deluxe Edition) James Baldwin 9780593688977 Fiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House A deluxe edition of James Baldwin’s haunting coming-of-age story, ...
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition) James Baldwin 9780593688984 Fiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House A stunning edition of James Baldwin’s timeless novel, with a new i...
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood James Baldwin 9781478000044 Fiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books “a child’s story for adults” Illustrated by Yoran Cazac. Edi...
The Evidence Of Things Not Seen
The Evidence Of Things Not Seen James Baldwin 9780805039399 Nonfiction Holt Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers One of America’s most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for th...
Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin
Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin Amy J. Elias 9781478030058 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Over the course of a thirty-eight-year f...
Neil Baldwin
Neil Baldwin 0000000108910963 Dr. Neil Baldwin, born in New York City, is a renowned author and scholar with a Ph.D. in Modern American Poetry. He has authored various poetry, textbooks, and biograph...
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 9780375701870 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House “Mountain,” Baldwin said, “is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.” Go ...
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 9783836571517 Fiction Taschen Taschen First published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remar...
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/authors/images/im-not-your-negro.jpg Film Review Oscar-Nominated Documentary Inspired by James Baldwin’s Unfinished Manuscript Excellent (...
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985 James Baldwin 9780807006566 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling...
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings James Baldwin and Randall Kenan 9780307378828 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American litera...
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 James Baldwin 9780312643065 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers The works of James Baldwin constitute one of the major contri...
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race Jesmyn Ward 9781501126352 Poetry Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 e...
Baldwin: A Love Story
Baldwin: A Love Story Robert Fleming Book Review Long before I met James Baldwin’s friend Vertamae Grosvenor, I was a preteen Black boy who had read the writer’s bold novel Go Tell It on ...
The “I Am Not Your Negro” Interview
The “I Am Not Your Negro” Interview Kam Williams Interview Filmmaker Raoul Peck Kam Williams: Hi Raoul, thanks for the interview, and congratulations on the Oscar nomination. Raoul Peck: Than...
Nola and Baldwin
Nola and Baldwin Donna Hill 9780063443389 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Inspired by Their Eyes Were Watching God for a new generation longing for a romantic finale, Nola and Baldwin is a sweeping hist...
There Is a Balm in Gilead
There Is a Balm in Gilead Lewis V. Baldwin 9780800624576 Nonfiction Augsburg Fortress 1517 Media The sources of Martin Luther King, Jr., ’s phenomenal and prophetic impact on life in America and beyon...
John Baldwin West
John Baldwin West NONE Dr. John Baldwin West was a renowned African American pulp detective fiction writer in the 1950s. He authored six novels featuring private investigator Rocky Steele, with most ...
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir Jessica B. Harris 9781501125928 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her ...
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir Jessica B. Harris 9781501125904 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost ...
Giovanni’s Room (Deluxe Edition)
Giovanni’s Room (Deluxe Edition) James Baldwin 9780593688960 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A deluxe edition of James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel, with a new introduction by Kevin Young and a...
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation Anna Malaika Tubbs 9781250756138 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers From Gates S...
Dark Days
Dark Days James Baldwin 9780241337547 Nonfiction Penguin Modern Penguin Random House “So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.” Drawi...
Jamie McGhee
Jamie McGhee NONE Jamie McGhee is a distinguished novelist, playwright, and essayist, recognized with fellowships in France and Brazil. She has received artist residencies in the US, Germany, and Spa...
Nicholas Boggs
Nicholas Boggs 000000049899943X Nicholas Boggs was an undergraduate when he discovered James Baldwin’s out-of-print children’s book, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood, in the Beinecke Rar...
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin 9780307275936 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House In this honest and stunning novel, Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of inj...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village Meet many of the authors you participated in the 2017 Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival, which was held at Curtis Hixon Park. These images and photos...
Charleston Literary Festival
Charleston Literary Festival Various Downtown Venues Charleston South Carolina Charleston Literary Festival is a boutique literary festival that runs every November for ten days in Charleston, South C...
Calabash International Literary Festival
Calabash International Literary Festival Treasure Beach Treasure Beach Jamaica, W.I. The Calabash International Literary Festival, held on a biennial basis on even years, was founded in 2001 by three ...
Baldwin, Styron, and Me
Baldwin, Styron, and Me Melikah Abdelmoumen 9781771966269 Nonfiction Biblioasis Biblioasis An unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around ident...
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America Michael Eric Dyson 9781250199416 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A ...
Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play James Baldwin 9780679761785 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With thi...
Going to Meet the Man: Stories
Going to Meet the Man: Stories James Baldwin 9780679761792 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House ""There’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” The men a...
Black Voices
Black Voices Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X 978045152782...
Texas Book Festival
Texas Book Festival State Capitol and surrounding grounds Austin Texas The Texas Book Festival (#TXBOOKFEST) celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imaginati...
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor Breakwater Yacht Club Sag Harbor New York The Black Authors Festival @Sag Harbor is a nationally celebrated in-person event, recognized by USA Today as one of the Top...
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Saturday, January 17, 2015, 10 am - 7 pm 51...
Vegas Valley Book Festival
Vegas Valley Book Festival Las Vegas Nevada The Vegas Valley Book Festival, now in its fifteenth year, is a celebration of the written, spoken, and illustrated word. The festival has networked togeth...
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport Banjul The Gambia An African Diaspora, One World, Pan African experience Mboka means ‘One Family’ in Wolof and will offer festival attendees a...
BWABC Literacy Festival
BWABC Literacy Festival Memphis Cook Convention Center Memphis Tennessee 2017 Festival was cancelled “The BWABC Literacy Association will not hold its annual festival in 2017. We thank you for...
Great American Book Festival
Great American Book Festival Main Street Square Rapid City South Dakota The Great American Book Festival was created by the founders of Literary Classics Book Awards & Reviews In an effort to suppo...
The Devil Finds Work
The Devil Finds Work James Baldwin 9780307275950 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of Amer...
James W. Lewis
James W. Lewis NONE James W. Lewis, an award-winning novelist and freelance writer, is a managing partner at The Pantheon Collective publishing company. Known for his debut novel 'Sellout', he has re...
James Hickman
James Hickman NONE James “Bullet” Hickman, a national best-selling author and CEO, transformed his life from a history of institutionalization to become a successful entrepreneur. Overcoming adversit...
Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin 9780345806567 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between...
No Name in the Street
No Name in the Street James Baldwin 9780307275929 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays...
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 9780679744726 Nonfiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave pas...
Sonny’s Blues
Sonny’s Blues James Baldwin 9780146000133 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House The prolific writer James Baldwin is an essential voice in African American literature in the Civil Rights era and ...
James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, and Others
James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, and Others MULTIPLE
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen 0000000081534450 Countée Porter Cullen (1903-1946) was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, known for his poetry books “Color” and “Copper Sun.” He taught and mentored James ...
Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X
Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X MULTIPLE
Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare
Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare James Baldwin Excerpt Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare—James Baldwin, 1964 Every writer in the English language, I should imagine, has at some point h...
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn Borough Hall and Vicinity Brooklyn New York The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and internat...
Annapolis Book Festival
Annapolis Book Festival The Key School Annapolis Maryland The Annapolis Book Festival is one of the premier community events in the region. Every year more than 3,000 people attend this free community...
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Photos and one video from the 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in Ne...
Sixth Annual National Book Festival
Sixth Annual National Book Festival Sixth Annual National Book Festival THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. 2006 National Book Festival ...
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival Salt Lake City Utah Previously the The Great Salt Lake Book Festival The annual Utah Humanities Book Festival is Utah’s oldest and only statewide book f...
Festival of Women Writers
Festival of Women Writers Hobart New York The Festival of Women Writers has become a highly anticipated event, unique among cultural happenings in the Catskill Region, especially in Delaware County. ...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival DuEwa M. Frazier Article Up South International Book Festival September 19th ’ September 23rd 2007 www...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Loading Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes ...
Generations In Black And White: Photographs From The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection
Generations In Black And White: Photographs From The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection Carl Van Vechten 9780820315584 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press What mak...
A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent Anne Rockwell 9781467749336 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group Told for the first time in picture...
James Forman
James Forman 0000000071399777 James Forman is the father of renowned legal scholar and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, James Forman Jr. James Forman James Forman is the father of legal scholar and ...
Lebron James
Lebron James 0000000033823012 LeBron James, an acclaimed basketball player with three NBA championships, two Olympic golds, and four MVP titles, is also recognized for his philanthropy. Raised in Akr...