NO NAME IN THE STREET - PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS
'Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on America's abortive civil-rights movement' -The New York Times
In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from his childhood in Harlem to the deaths Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Exploring the visceral reality of life in the American South as well as Baldwin's impressions of London, Paris and Hamburg, No Name in the Street grapples with the failed promises of global liberation movements in fearless, candid prose.
Timeless, tender and profound, Baldwin's searing narrative contains the multiplicities of what it means to be Black in America and, indeed, around the world.
JAMES BALDWIN
James Baldwin was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953 , which evokes his experiences as a boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwin's second novel, Giovanni's Room 1956 has become a landmark of gay literature and Another Country 1962 caused a literary sensation. His searing essay collections Notes of a Native Son 1955 and Nobody Knows My Name 1961 contain many of the works that made him an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin published several other collections of non-fiction, including The Fire Next Time 1963 and No Name in the Street 1972 . His short stories are collected in Going to Meet the Man 1965 . His later works include the novels Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone 1968 , If Beale Street Could Talk 1974 and Just Above My Head 1979 .
James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships: a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He died in 1987 in France
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BALDWIN JAMES
James Baldwin 1924-1987 fue un influyente escritor, ensayista y activista afroamericano nacido en Harlem, Nueva York. Su obra abordó con profundidad temas como el racismo, la identidad, la religión y la sexualidad en Estados Unidos. Entre sus libros más destacados se encuentran Notas de un hijo nativo, La próxima vez el fuego y El cuarto de Giovanni. Baldwin vivió gran parte de su vida en Francia, desde donde reflexionó sobre la sociedad estadounidense y participó activamente en el movimiento por los derechos civiles.
