Chez Baldwin: A Bibliography

Explore this bibliography of sources used in the research and development of the Chez Baldwin online exhibition.

Books, Articles, and Interviews

• Auchincloss, Eve and Nancy Lynch, “Distributor of the Peace: James Baldwin, An Interview,” The Black American Writer, Vol. 1, ed. CWE Bigsby (Deland, FL: Everett-Edwards, 1969) p 199-216.
• Baldwin, James, “A Report from Occupied Territory,” The Nation, (July 11, 1966).
• Baldwin, James, “Alas, Poor Richard,” Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son, (Cleveland, Dial Press: 1961).
• Baldwin, James, “An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis,” The New York Review of Books, (January 7, 1971).
• Baldwin, James, “Architectural Digest Visits: James Baldwin,” Architectural Digest, (August 1987).
• Baldwin, James, “Equal in Paris,” Commentary Magazine, (March 1955).
• Baldwin, James, “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” (PDF) Partisan Review, (June 16, 1949).
• Baldwin, James, “The Harlem Ghetto,” Commentary Magazine, (February 1948).
• Baldwin, James, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” The New Yorker, (November 17, 1962).
• Baldwin, James, “Revolutionary Hope,” Essence Magazine, (1984).
• Baldwin, James, “Speech to the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches,”  (PDF) (Uppsala, July 4-19, 1968).
• Baldwin, James, “Stranger in the Village,” Harper’s Magazine, (1953).
• Baldwin, James, “The American Dream and the American Negro,” The New York Times, (March 7, 1965).
• Baldwin, James, “The Negro Writer’s Vision of America” Literary Conference Notes, New York, 1965.
• Baldwin, James, “The New Lost Generation,” Esquire, (July 1, 1961).
• Baldwin, James, “The Preservation of Innocence,” Zero, Vol. 1 No. 2, (1949).
• Baldwin, James, Notes of a Native Son, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955).
• Baldwin, James, Nothing Personal, (Lucerne, Switzerland: CH Bucher, 1964).
• Baldwin, James, “One Day When I Was Lost,” Screenplay, (1972).
• Baldwin, James, Remember this House, (Unpublished).
• Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time, (New York: Vintage International, 1993).
• Baldwin, James, “Sweet Lorraine,” Esquire, (November 1, 1969).
• Baldwin, James, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985. (New York: St. Martins, 1999).
• Boyd, Herb, Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008).
• Brown, Cecil, “With James Baldwin at the Welcome Table,” The Common Reader, (February 21, 2019).
• Coles, Robert, “James Baldwin Back Home,” The New York Times, (July 31, 1977).
• Daniels, Lee A., “James Baldwin, Eloquent Writer in Behalf of Civil Rights, is Dead,” The New York Times: Obituaries, (December 2, 1987).
• Dyson, Michael Eric, What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America, (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018).
• Eckman, Fern Marja, The Furious Passage of James Baldwin, (New York: M. Evans, 1966).
• Elgrably, Jordan, “James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78,” The Paris Review, Issue 91, (Spring 1984).
• Farber, Jules B. James Baldwin: Escape from America, Exile in Provence, (Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2016).
• Field, Douglas. “Pentecostalism And All That Jazz: Tracing James Baldwin’s Religion”. Literature and Theology, London: Oxford University Press, Vol. 22, No. 4 (December 2008) p. 436-457.
• Gevinson, Alan. “James Baldwin at the National Press Club, December 10, 1986,”  (PDF) Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Recorded Sound Research Center, Library of Congress.
• Goldstein, Richard, “James Baldwin on Being Gay in America,” The Village Voice, (June 26, 1984).
• Howard, Jane, “Telling Talk from a Negro Writer,” LIFE Magazine Vol. 54, No. 21 (May 24, 1963), p 81-92, 100-102.
• Jacobs, Sean. “The Global Imagination of James Baldwin: An Interview with Rich Blint,” Africa Is A Country, (May 2011).
• Leeming, David Adams, James Baldwin: A Biography, (New York: Alfred A. Knope, 1994).
• Lester, Julius, “James Baldwin—Reflections of a Maverick,” The New York Times, (May 27, 1984).
• Lorde, Audre, “Revolutionary Hope,” Essence Magazine, (1984).
• Malcolm X, “Message to Grass Roots,” (November 10, 1963).
• Morrison, Toni, “James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His Language,” Eulogy reprinted in The New York Times, (December 20, 1987).
• Pakay, Sedat Bearing Witness from Another Place: James Baldwin in Turkey, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012).
• Remnick, David, “The Long Road,” The New Yorker Magazine, (December 22, 2012).
• Terkel, Studs et. al., James Baldwin: The Last Interview (New York: Melville House Publishing, 2014).
• Lubiano, Wahneema, editor, The House that Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today, (New York: Random House, 1998).
• Troupe, Quincy, James Baldwin: The Legacy, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989).
• United States Congress, House. Commission on Education and Labor: Hearing, Ninetieth Congress, second session, on H.R. 12962. March 18, 1968. “To establish a National Commission on Negro History and Culture,” Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. OFF., 1968.
• Weatherby, WJ, “Native Son: An Interview with James Baldwin,” The Guardian, (November 22, 1962).
• Zaborowska, Magdalena J., Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in France, (North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2018).
• “James Baldwin Calls for ‘Massive Boycott’,” The New York Times, (August 25, 1967).
• “James Baldwin,” in Norton Anthology of African American Literature, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Mellie McKay, p 1650-1717. Edition 1. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).

Video Recordings

• Baldwin, James, William F. Buckley, Jr, “Is the American Dream at the Expense of the American Negro?,” Cambridge University, Debate, (1965).
• Giovanni, Nikki, “Interview with James Baldwin,” Soul!, WNET, (November 1971).
• Little Man, Little Man: a Story of Childhood & the Legacy of James Baldwin. (2019).
• Pakay, Sedat, director, James Baldwin: From Another Place, (1973).
• Terkel, Studs, “Interview with James Baldwin,” (1961).
• Thorsen, Karen, director, James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, (1989).
• “James Baldwin—Sexual Identity,” Biography.

Letters

• Baldwin, James, “Letter to David Baldwin,” 1965, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
• Baldwin, James, “Letter to David Baldwin,” 1967, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
• Baldwin, James, “Letter to David Baldwin,” 1975, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
• Baldwin, James, “Letter to Berdis Baldwin,” 1977, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
• Baldwin, James, “Letter to Berdis Baldwin,” mid-Twentieth Century, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
• Baldwin, James, “Letter to Paula Baldwin Whaley,” 1961, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
• Baldwin, James, “Letter to Paula Baldwin Whaley,” 1966, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
• Baldwin, James, “Letter to Jay Acton,” June 30, 1979 within James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro, edited by Raoul Peck, (New York: Vintage Books, 2017).
• Baldwin, James, “To Paula on her Birthday,” Poem, mid-Twentieth Century, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
• Bond, Julian Horace, “Letter to James Baldwin,” 1964, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
• Evers, Charles, “Telegram to James Baldwin,” Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Haley, Alex, “Letter to James Baldwin,” mid-Twentieth Century, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
• King, Jr., Dr. Martin Luther, “Letter to James Baldwin,” 1961, Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture