Foreword
Imani Perry
Nothing Personal
James Baldwin
Afterword
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
About the Author
About the Contributors
James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist,
playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America’s foremost
writers. His writing explores palpable yet unspoken intricacies of
racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most
notably in mid-20th-century America. A Harlem, New York, native, he
lived periodically in exile in the south of France and in Turkey.
He is the author of several novels and books of nonfiction,
including Notes of a Native Son, Go Tell It on the Mountain,
Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been
Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, Just Above My Head, The Fire Next
Time, No Name in the Street, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen,
and of the poetry collection Jimmy’s Blues.
Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African
American Studies at Princeton University. Her books include Breathe
and Looking for Lorraine.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished
University Professor at Princeton University. His books
include Begin Again and Democracy in Black.
“Listeners will enter Baldwin’s mind as they enjoy JD Jackson’s
well-paced and probing narration.”
—AudioFile Magazine
“In this short, stunning work, with his inimitable use of language,
Baldwin distills the essence of his pain and wisdom and points a
way for our own time.”
—New York Journal of Books
“James Baldwin’s Nothing Personal has to be read more than twice,
the spare sentences, the far less than spare thoughts and beliefs
aren’t absorbed like a Brawny towel absorbs a spill.”
—Portland Book Review
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