num_pages: 175
description: Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written.
language: English
title: Notes of a native son
titlecomplete: Notes of a native son
genres: Essays, Politics, Biography, Social Justice, Race, Classics, African American, Nonfiction, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 19750
publisher: Beacon Press