As one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of the 20th Century, the late great James Baldwin brings us a view of Black life and Black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement in Notes of a Native Son. Baldwin writes as an artist, an activist, and a social critic probing the complex condition of being Black in America. Notes of a Native Son is on Guardian’s top 100 books of all time. We honor what would have been the author’s 100th birthday this August.

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