- ~ Wrote Novels, Essays, Plays, Short Stories and Poems
- ~ Numerous Best-Sellers
- ~ Over two dozen novels, essays, collections,
plays and criticism - ~ Translated into Twenty-Eight Languages
- ~ Ranked as One of the 100 Best Writers of the 20th Century
- "Jimmy didn't like going back to what he'd already done."
- ~ David Leeming, from the film
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Explorations of Baldwin’s Life, Words & Humanity
Building on the Classic Film Portrait "James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket"
Building on the Classic Film Portrait "James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket"
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- 1953: Go Tell It on the Mountain; Knopf; a novel.
- 1954: The Amen Corner; a play (completed but not published).
- 1955: Notes of a Native Son; Beacon; editor, Sol Stein; essays.
- 1956: Giovanni's Room; Dial; a novel.
- 1961: Nobody Knows My Name; Dial; essays.
- 1962: Another Country; Dial; a novel.
- 1963: The Fire Next Time; Dial; essays.
- 1964: Blues for Mister Charlie; Dial; a play.
- Nothing Personal; Atheneum; a photographic essay: photos by Richard Avedon, text by James Baldwin.
- 1965: Going to Meet the Man; Dial; collected short stories: "The Rockpile"
- "The Outing"; "The Man Child"; "Previous Condition"; "Sonny's Blues"; "This Morning This Evening So Soon"; "Come Out The Wilderness"; "Going To Meet The Man."
- 1968: The Amen Corner; Doubleday; a play.
- Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone; Dial; a novel.
- 1969: Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism; Barron; an essay.
- 1971: A Rap On Race: James Baldwin and Margaret Mead;
- Lippincott; a dialogue.
- 1972: No Name in the Street; Dial; essays.
- One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'; Joseph (London, 1972); Dial (New York, 1973); a screenplay.
- 1973: A Dialogue; Lippincott; a conversation with black poet / activist
- Nikki Giovanni.
- 1974: If Beale Street Could Talk; Dial; a novel.
- 1976: The Devil Finds Work; Dial; essays.
- Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood: Dial; a children's book by James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac.
- 1979: Just Above My Head; Dial; also published by Stock in French as
- Harlem Quartet (1987); a novel.
- 1983: Jimmy's Blues; St. Martin’s; poems.
- 1985: The Evidence of Things Not Seen; Holt, essays.
- The Price Of The Ticket: Collected Non-Fiction; St. Martin's/ Marek; essays.
- 2004: Native Sons; Random House/One World; a memoir by Sol Stein
- with letters, a short story and a play by James Baldwin.
- 2011: The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings; Vintage;
- editor, Randall Garrett Kenan; essays.
- 1955: The Amen Corner; Howard University, Washington, D.C.
- 1957: Giovanni's Room; The Actor's Studio, N.Y.
- 1964: Blues For Mister Charlie; ANTA Theater, N.Y., by the Actor's Studio.
- Blues For Mister Charlie; Central Theater of the Soviet Army, U.S.S.R.
- 1965: The Amen Corner; The Ethel Barrymore Theater, N.Y.
- 1965: Blues For Mister Charlie; performed as part of the World Theater
- Festival by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
- The Amen Corner; performed as part of the Arts in Freedom Festival, first at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, then throughout Europe and Israel.
- 1973: The Life and Times of Ray Charles; a narrative collaboration with
- musician Ray Charles, performed at the Newport Jazz Festival.
- 1974: A Deed From The King Of Spain; American Center for Stanislavski
- Theater Art, N.Y.
- 1982: Blues For Mister Charlie; Amistad World Theater, New York.
- 1983: The Amen Corner; a musical version of the play, first at the
- Ford Theater in Washington D.C., then In New York.
- 1984: Go Tell It On The Mountain; American Playhouse, P.B.S. Television.
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