A major compendium of nonfiction by one of America’s most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of the centenary of his birth

Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everyman’s Library collection includes his best-selling, galvanizing essay The Fire Next Time—which gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960s and still lights the way to understanding race in America today—along with three additional works of nonfiction by this seminal chronicler of our culture. From No Name in the Street’s extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies to Nobody Knows My Name (described as “passionate, probing, controversial” by The Atlantic) and the incisive criticism of American movies in The Devil Finds Work, Baldwin’s stunning prose proves enduringly relevant to our contemporary struggle for equality, justice, and social change.