The Fire Next Time
Beschrijving
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
'It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate'
Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters',
The Fire Next Time
is an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice, drawn from Baldwin's early life in Harlem and his experience as a prominent cultural figure of the civil rights movement.
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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