Conversations with James Baldwin

This collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961-1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him.

Twenty-seven interviews reprinted here come from a variety of sources—newspapers, radio, journals, and review—and show this celebrated author in all his eloquence, anger, and perception of racial, social, and literary situations in America.<…