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James Baldwin

Author and civil rights activist James Baldwin was born in New York City's Harlem in 1924. He started out as a writer during the late 1940s and rose to international fame after the publication of his most famous essay, The Fire Next Time, in 1963. Read more from Gale Virtual Reference Library's e-reference book Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History.

Recommendations

Negroland by Margo Jefferson
Call Number: F548.9 .N4 J44 2015
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1111 .F47 2004
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Call Number: PR6069 .M59 S95 2016
Loving Day by Mat Johnson
Call Number: PS3560 .O38167 L68 2015
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: PS3573 .H4768 U53 2016

Recommendations

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
Call Number: E185.97 .R24 A3 2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E185.615 .C6335 2015
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Call Number: PR6115 .Y49 B69 2014
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 G63 2015
Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
Call Number: PS3602 .A77585 J36 2015