James Baldwin (Mod Crit Views) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Though James Baldwin built his reputation on his novels, his nonfictional prose, according to Harold Bloom, ensures him a place as "the most considerable moral essayist . . . in the United States." Works such as The Fire Next Time and No Name in the Street challenged the country to help liberate humankind. This title, James Baldwin, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of James Baldwin through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on James Baldwin, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.