In his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories,
plays and essays, James Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the
American literary landscape, fearlessly brooding upon issues such as race, sex, politics,
and art. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American.

Vintage Baldwin includes the short story Sonny’s Blues ; the galvanizing civil
rights examination My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary
of the Emancipation ; the essays Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem,
The
Discovery of What It Means to Be an American, and Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter
from the South ; and excerpts from the novel Another Country and the play The Amen
Corner.

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.