COLLECTED ESSAYS

Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual, James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the pos twar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. A self-described transatlantic commuter who spent much o f his life in France, Baldwin joined cosmopolitan sophistication with a fierce engagement in social issues. Edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Library of America'sCollected Essaysthe most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever publishedconfi rms him ...[Leer más]