No Name in the Street
  • Published: 1 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9781802066845
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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No Name in the Street

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A short, powerful memoir from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century

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 Jr. 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.
  • Published: 1 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9781802066845
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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About the author

James Baldwin

Born in 1924 in New York City, James Baldwin published the 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, going on to garner acclaim for his insights on race, spirituality and humanity.
Other novels included Giovanni's Room, Another Country and Just Above My Head as well as essay works like Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time. Having lived in France, he died on December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul de Vence.

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Praise for No Name in the Street

He was one of our best essayists in the best American gadfly tradition

Ralph Ellison

What makes his essays so compelling is that he insists on being personal, on forcing the public and the political to submit to his voice and the test of his experience and his observation

Colm Tóibín

If Van Gogh was our 19th century artist-saint then James Baldwin is our 20th century one

Michael Ondaatje

Baldwin refused to hold anyone’s hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you

Ta-Nehisi Coates