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James Baldwin Audio Books

James Baldwin (1924–1987), acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, was educated in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, received excellent reviews and was immediately recognized as establishing a profound and permanent new voice in American letters. The appearance of The Fire Next Time in 1963, just as the civil rights movement was exploding across the American South, galvanized the nation and continues to reverberate as perhaps the most prophetic and defining statement ever written of the continuing costs of Americans’ refusal to face their own history. It became a national bestseller, and Baldwin was featured on the cover of Time. The next year, he was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and collaborated with the photographer Richard Avedon on Nothing Personal, a series of portraits of America intended as a eulogy for the slain Medger Evers. His other collaborations include A Rap on Race with Margaret Mead and A Dialogue with the poet–activist Nikki Giovanni. He also adapted Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X into One Day When I Was Lost. He was made a commander of the French Legion of Honor a year before his death, one honor among many he achieved in his life.

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Extended Sample Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Another Country by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
Extended Sample The Amen Corner by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Poemhood: Our Black Revival by Amber McBride
Extended Sample The Price of the Ticket by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
Extended Sample If They Come in the Morning... by Angela Davis
Extended Sample James Baldwin Reading from Another Country by James Baldwin
Extended Sample James Baldwin Reading from Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Vol. 1 by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Great American Authors Read from Their Works by John Updike
Extended Sample Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
Extended Sample The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
Extended Sample No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Just above My Head by James Baldwin
Extended Sample If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Greek Myths Volume 2 by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
Extended Sample Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Extended Sample David Copperfield & Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Extended Sample Fairy Reader by The Brothers Grimm
Extended Sample Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Extended Sample Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Extended Sample The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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