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A Comprehensive Catalog of Works by James Baldwin

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Novels

Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) 🏛️ 📖 📺

Giovanni’s Room (1956) 🏛️ 📖

Another Country (1962) 🏛️ 📖

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone (1968) 🏛️ 📖

If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) 🏛️ 📖 📺

Just Above My Head (1979) 🏛️ 📖

Plays

The Amen Corner (1954) 🏛️ 📖

Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) 🏛️ 📖

Short Stories

The Death of the Prophet (originally published in Commentary, March 1950, and reprinted in The Cross of Redemption (edited by Randall Kenan, Pantheon Books, 2010) 🔗

Going to Meet the Man (1965) 🏛️ 📖

The Rockpile (original to Going to Meet the Man)
The Outing (originally published in New Story, April 1951)
The Man Child (reprinted in Playboy, January 1966)
Previous Condition (originally published in Commentary, October 1948)
Sonny’s Blues (originally published in Partisan Review, Summer 1957)
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon (originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, September 1960)
Come Out the Wilderness (originally published in Mademoiselle, March 1958)
Going to Meet the Man (originally published in Status, October 1965)

Nonfiction, Essays and Speeches

Notes of a Native Son (1955) 🏛️ 📖

Autobiographical Notes (original to Notes of a Native Son)
Everybody’s Protest Novel (originally published in Zero, Spring 1949, and reprinted in Partisan Review, June 1949)
Many Thousands Gone (originally published as “The Negro: Man and Mask” in Partisan Review, November–December 1951)
Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough (originally published as “Life Straight in De Eye” in Commentary, January 1955)
The Harlem Ghetto (originally published in Commentary, February 1948)
Journey to Atlanta (originally published in The New Leader, October 1948)
Notes of a Native Son (originally published as “Me and My House …” in Harper’s, November 1955)
Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown (originally published as “The Negro in Paris” in The Reporter, June 1950)
A Question of Identity (originally published in Partisan Review, July–August 1954)
Equal in Paris (originally published in Commentary, March 1955)
Stranger in the Village (originally published in Harper’s, October 1953)

Nobody Knows My Name (1961) 🏛️ 📖

The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American (originally published in The New York Times Book Review, January 1959)
Princes and Powers (originally published in Encounter, January 1957)
Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem (originally published in Esquire, July 1960)
East River, Downtown: Postscript to a Letter from Harlem (originally published as “A Negro Assays the Negro Mood” in The New York Times Magazine, March 1961, and reprinted as “They Will Wait No More” in Negro Digest, July 1961)
A Fly in Buttermilk (originally published as “The Hard Kind of Courage” in Harper’s, October 1958)
Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South (originally published in Partisan Review, Winter 1959)
Faulkner and Desegregation (originally published in Partisan Review, Fall 1956)
In Search of a Majority (adapted from an address at Kalamazoo College, February 1960)
Notes for a Hypothetical Novel (adapted from an address at San Francisco State College, October 1960) 🔊
The Male Prison (originally published as “Gide as Husband and Homosexual” in The New Leader, December 1954)
The Northern Protestant (originally published as “The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman” in Esquire, April 1960)
Alas, Poor Richard
- I: Eight Men (originally published as “The Survival of Richard Wright” in The Reporter, March 1961)
- II: The Exile (originally published in French as “Richard Wright, tel que je l’ai connu” in Preuves, February 1961; originally published in English as “Richard Wright” in Encounter, April 1961)
- III: Alas, Poor Richard (original to Nobody Knows My Name)
The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy (originally published in Esquire, May 1961)

The Fire Next Time (1963) 🏛️ 📖

My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew (originally published in The Progressive, December 1962)
Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind (originally published in The New Yorker, November 1962)

Nothing Personal (1964) [originally published alongside photographs by Richard Avedon] 🏛️ 📖

No Name in the Street (1972) [excerpted as “Malcolm and Martin” in Esquire, April 1972] 🏛️ 📖

The Devil Finds Work (1976) 🏛️ 📖

The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985) [expanded from an article originally published in Playboy, December 1981] 🏛️ 📖

The Price of the Ticket (1985) 🏛️ 📖
*excluding works already listed above/published in a previous collection

Introduction: The Price of the Ticket (original to The Price of the Ticket)
Lockridge: “The American Myth” (originally published in The New Leader, April 1948)
The Crusade of Indignation (originally published in The Nation, July 1956)
On Catfish Row (originally published in Commentary, September 1959)
They Can’t Turn Back (originally published in Mademoiselle, August 1960)
The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King (originally published in Harper’s, February 1961, and reprinted as “The Highroad to Destiny” in Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Profile, edited by C. Eric Lincoln, Hill and Wang, 1970)
The New Lost Generation (originally published in Esquire, July 1961)
The Creative Process (originally published in Creative America, Ridge Press, 1962)
Color (originally published in Esquire, December 1962)
A Talk to Teachers (adapted from an address, titled “The Negro Child—His Self-Image,” in New York City, October 1963; originally published in The Saturday Review, December 1963)
Words of a Native Son (originally published in Playboy, December 1964)
The American Dream and the American Negro (adapted from an address, during a debate with William F. Buckley Jr., at Cambridge University, February 1965; originally published in The New York Times Magazine, March 1965) 📺
White Man’s Guilt (originally published in Ebony, August 1965, and expanded and reprinted as “Unnameable Objects, Unspeakable Crimes” in The White Problem in America, Johnson Publishing Company, 1966)
A Report from Occupied Territory (originally published in The Nation, July 1966)
Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White (originally published in The New York Times Magazine, April 1967)
White Racism or World Community? (adapted from an address at the fourth international assembly of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala, Sweden, July 1968; originally published in The Ecumenical Review, October 1968, and reprinted in Religious Education, September–October 1969)
Sweet Lorraine (originally published in Esquire, November 1969)
A Review of Roots (originally published as “How One Black Man Came To Be an American” in The New York Times Book Review, September 1976)
An Open Letter to Mr. Carter (originally published in The New York Times, January 1977)
Every Good-bye Ain’t Gone (originally published in New York Magazine, December 1977)
If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? (originally published in The New York Times, July 1979)
An Open Letter to the Born Again (originally published in The Nation, September 1979)
Dark Days (originally published in Esquire, October 1980)
Notes on the House of Bondage (originally published in The Nation, November 1980)
Here Be Dragons (originally published as “Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood” in Playboy, January 1985)

Collected Essays, ed. by Toni Morrison (1998) 🏛️ 📖
*excluding works already listed above/published in a previous collection

Smaller Than Life (originally published in The Nation, July 1947)
History as Nightmare (originally published in The New Leader, October 1947)
The Image of the Negro (originally published in Commentary, April 1948)
Preservation of Innocence (originally published in Zero, Summer 1949)
The Negro at Home and Abroad (originally published in The Reporter, November 1951)
Sermons and Blues (originally published in The New York Times Book Review, March 1959)
“This Nettle, Danger …” (originally published in Show, February 1964, and reprinted in part as “Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare” in The Observer, April 1964)
On the Painter Beauford Delaney (originally published as the introduction to an exhibition of paintings by Beauford Delaney at Galerie Lambert in Paris, December 1964, and reprinted in Transition, No. 18, 1965)
Last of the Great Masters (originally published in The New York Times Book Review, October 1977)
Introduction to Notes of a Native Son, 1984 (originally published in the 1984 edition of Notes of a Native Son by Beacon Press)

The Cross of Redemption, ed. by Randall Kenan (2010) 🏛️ 📖
*excluding works already listed above/published in a previous collection

Mass Culture and the Creative Artist: Some Personal Notes (adapted from an address at a symposium by the Tamiment Institute, June 1959; originally published in Culture for the Millions?, edited by Norman Jacobs, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1959, and reprinted in Daedalus, Spring 1960)
A Word from Writer Directly to Reader (originally published in Fiction of the Fifties, edited by Herbert Gold, Doubleday, 1959)
Nationalism, Colonialism, and the United States: One Minute to Twelve—A Forum (adapted from an address at a symposium by the Liberation Committee for Africa, June 1961)
Theater: The Negro In and Out (originally published as “James Baldwin on the Negro Actor” and “Theatre” in The Urbanite, April and May, respectively, 1961, and reprinted in Negro Digest, April 1966)
Is A Raisin in the Sun a Lemon in the Dark? (originally published in Tone, April 1961)
As Much Truth as One Can Bear (originally published in The New York Times Book Review, January 1962)
Geraldine Page: Bird of Light (originally published in Show, February 1962)
What’s the Reason Why?: A Symposium by Best-Selling Authors: James Baldwin on Another Country (originally published in The New York Times Book Review, December 1962)
The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity (adapted from an address at the Community Church in New York, November 1962; broadcast by WBAI; originally published in Liberation, March 1963; and produced in LP form as “The Struggle” by Buddah Records, 1969) 🔊
We Can Change the Country (originally published in Liberation, October 1963)
The Uses of the Blues (adapted from an address at Monterey Peninsula College, April 1962; originally published in Playboy, January 1964)
What Price Freedom? (adapted from an address in Washington, D.C., November 1963; originally published in Freedomways, Spring 1964)
The White Problem (adapted from an address, titled “Free and Brave,” at Second Baptist Church in Los Angeles, May 1963; originally published in Frontier, June 1963) 🔊
Black Power (originally published as “In Defense of Stokely Carmichael” in The Guardian, February 1968; reprinted as “Why A Stokely?” in The St. Petersburg Times, March 1968; reprinted as “A Letter to Americans” in Freedomways, Spring 1968; and reprinted as “From Dreams of Love to Dreams of Terror” in Natural Enemies? Youth and the Clash of Generations, edited by Alexander Klein, Lippincott, 1969)
The Price May Be Too High (originally published as “Can Black and White Artists Still Work Together? The Price May Be Too High” in The New York Times, February 1969)
The Nigger We Invent (adapted from a statement at a hearing before the House Select Subcommittee on Labor, held in New York City, March 1968; originally published in Integrated Education, March–April 1969)
Speech from the Soledad Rally (adapted from an address at Central Hall, Westminster, April 1971; originally published in Speeches from the Soledad Brothers Rally, Notting Hill Press, Ltd., 1975)
A Challenge to Bicentennial Candidates (originally published in The Los Angeles Times, February 1976)
The News from All the Northern Cities Is, to Understate It, Grim; the State of the Union is Catastrophic (originally published in The New York Times, April 1978)
Lorraine Hansberry at the Summit (originally published in Freedomways, Special Issue, Fourth Quarter 1979)
On Language, Race, and the Black Writer (adapted from an address at UC Berkeley, January 1979, originally published in The Los Angeles Times, April 1979) 📺
Of the Sorrow Songs: The Cross of Redemption (originally published in New Edinburgh Review, Autumn 1979)
Black English: A Dishonest Argument (adapted from an address at Wayne State University, February 1980)
This Far and No Further (originally published in Time Capsule, Summer–Fall 1983)
On Being White … and Other Lies (originally published in Essence, April 1984)
Blacks and Jews (adapted from an address followed by a Q&A at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, February 1984; originally published in The Black Scholar, November–December 1988)
To Crush a Serpent (originally published as “To Crush the Serpent” in Playboy, January 1987)
The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston (originally published in Nugget, February 1963, and reprinted in Antaeus, Spring 1989)
Sidney Poitier (originally published in Look, July 1968)
Letters from a Journey (originally published in Harper’s, May 1963)
The International War Crimes Tribunal (originally published as “The War Crimes Tribunal” in Freedomways, Summer 1967)
Anti-Semitism and Black Power (originally published in Freedomways, Winter 1967)
An Open Letter to My Sister Angela Y. Davis (originally published as “Dear Sister …” in The Guardian, December 1970, and reprinted in The New York Review of Books, January 1971)
A Letter to Prisoners (originally published in Inside/Out, Summer 1982)
The Fire This Time: Letter to the Bishop (originally published as “Letter to Bishop Tutu” in The New Statesman, August 1985, and reprinted as “Whites’ Freedom Depends on Blacks’” in The Los Angeles Times, January 1986)
[Afterword to] A Quarter Century of Un-Americana (originally published as “Envoi” in A Quarter Century of Un-Americana, edited by Charlotte Pomerantz, Marzani & Munsell, 1963)
[Foreword to] Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year Literary and Erotic Odyssey (originally published as “The Poet in Exile” in Olé, No. 5, 1966, and reprinted as “Preface” in Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, by Harold Norse, William & Morrow, 1989)
[Foreword to] The Negro in New York: An Informal Social History, 1626-1940 (originally published as “Preface” in The Negro in New York, edited by Roi Ottley and William J. Weatherby, Oceana Publications, 1967)
[Foreword to] Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether (originally published as “Foreword” in Daddy Was a Number Runner, by Louise Meriwether, Prentice Hall, 1970)
[Foreword to] A Lonely Rage by Bobby Seale (originally published as “Stagolee” in A Lonely Rage, by Bobby Seale, Times Books, 1978)
[Review of] Best Short Stories by Maxim Gorky (originally published as “Maxim Gorky as Artist” in The Nation, April 1947)
[Review of] Mother by Maxim Gorky (originally published as “Battle Hymn” in The New Leader, November 1947)
[Review of] The Amboy Dukes by Irving Shulman (originally published as “When the War Hit Brownsville” in The New Leader, May 1947)
[Review of] The Sure Hand of God by Erskine Caldwell (originally published as “The Dead Hand of Caldwell” in The New Leader, December 1947)
[Review of] The Sling and the Arrow by Stuart Engstrand (originally published as “Without Grisly Gaiety” in The New Leader, September 1947)
[Review of] Novels and Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson … (originally published as “Bright World Darkened” in The New Leader, January 1948)
[Review of] Flood Crest by Hodding Carter (originally published as “Change within a Channel” in The New Leader, April 1948)
[Review of] The Moth by James M. Cain (originally published as “Modern Rover Boys” in The New Leader, August 1948)
[Review of] The Portable Russian Reader, edited by Bernard Gilbert Guerney (originally published as “Literary Grab-Bag” in The New Leader, February 1948)
[Review of] The Person and the Common Good by Jacques Maritain (originally published as “Present and Future” in The New Leader, March 1948)
[Review of] The Negro Newspaper by Vishnu V. Oak … (originally published as “Too Late, Too Late” in Commentary, January 1949)
[Review of] The Cool World by Warren Miller (originally published as “War Lord of the Crocadiles” in The New York Times Book Review, June 1959)
[Review of] Essays by Seymour Krim (originally published as a review of Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer in The Village Voice, July 1961)
[Review of] The Arrangement by Elia Kazan (originally published as “God’s Country” in The New York Review of Books, March 1967)
[Review of] A Man’s Life: An Autobiography by Roger Wilkins (originally published as “Roger Wilkins: A Black Man’s Odyssey in White America” in The Washington Post Book World, June 1982)

Uncollected 📚

Among the Recent Letters to the Editor: Freedom and the South (published in The New York Times Book Review, February 1961)
Foreword to Freedom Ride, by Jim Peck, Simon and Schuster, 1962
Not 100 Years of Freedom (published in Liberator, January 1963)
“These Things We Sort of Know” (a speech at UC Berkeley, May 1963; published in James Baldwin Review, September 2024) 🔊
Political Murder in Birmingham (published in New America, September, 1963)

The Creative Dilemma (published in The Saturday Review, February 1964)
On the Harlem Riots (published in The New York Post, August 1964, and reprinted as “Fear of the Police” in Pageant, December 1964)
In Search of a Basis for Mutual Understanding and Racial Harmony (published in The Nature of a Humane Society: A Symposium on the Bicentennial of the United States of America, edited by H. Ober Hess, Fortress Press, 1967)
A Question of Commitment (published in The New York Times Book Review, June 1968)
Introduction to The Chasm, by Robert Campbell, Houghton Mifflin, 1974
Introduction to Cazac: Peintures d'Italie, 67-77, by Olivier de Magny, 1977
Introduction to We Are Everywhere, by Michael Raeburn, Random House, 1978
The Language of the Streets (published in Literature and the Urban Experience, edited by Michael C. Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts, Rutgers University Press, 1981)
Belatedly, the Fear Turned to Love for His Father (published in TV Guide, January 1985)
Introduction to Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts: Essays in Struggle, by Michael Thelwell, University of Massachusetts Press, 1987
A House Is Not a Home (published in Architectural Digest, August 1987)
“I feel reconciled to myself and my past …” (published in Perspectives: Angles on African Art, The Center for African Art, 1987)

Multimedia 🎙️🎥
*the following are monologues without a known published transcript

The Moral Responsibility of the Artist (a speech followed by a Q&A at the University of Chicago, May 1963) [audio via YouTube]
Living and Growing in a White World (a speech followed by a Q&A at Castlemont High School in Oakland, Calif., June 1963; broadcast by KQED) [audio via Archive.org]
After the Murder of Four Children (a speech at the New York Community Church, September 1963; broadcast by WBAI, October 1963) [audio via American Archive of Public Broadcasting]
My Childhood: James Baldwin’s Harlem (narration of a short film produced by Benchmark Films, 1964) [video via YouTube]
A Benefit Appearance (a speech before the Non-Violent Action Committee in Los Angeles, December 1964) [audio via Archive.org, starts at 45:50]
Public Broadcast Laboratory, Ep. 116: Literary Review (a speech broadcast on NET, March 1968) [video via American Archive of Public Broadcasting, 1:31:47–1:36:12]
Men and Women in the Arts Concerned with Vietnam: Introducing Martin Luther King (a speech at Marlon Brando’s Beverly Hills home, March 1968; broadcast by KPFK) [audio via Archive.org, 00:23–06:10]
James Baldwin on the assassination of George Jackson (speaking to the press in Paris, 1971) [audio via Archive.org/Freedom Archives/YouTube]
James Baldwin: From Another Place (narration of a short film by Sedat Pakay, shot in Istanbul in May 1973, produced in 1973) [video via MUBI]
Writers Speak (a speech followed by a Q&A at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 1983; broadcast by WFCR) [audio via Credo; partial video via YouTube]
The World I Never Made (a speech followed by a Q&A at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., December 1986) [audio via Library of Congress; video via C-SPAN]

Dialogues, Debates and Discussions

A Rap on Race, with Margaret Mead (1971) 🏛️ 🔊

A Dialogue, with Nikki Giovanni (1973) 🏛️ 📺

Conversations with James Baldwin, ed. by Fred L. Standley and Louis H. Pratt (1989) 🏛️ 📖

An Interview with James Baldwin, Studs Terkel (originally broadcast by WFMT, December 1961, though taped in July; and produced in LP form as “Black Man in America” by Credo, 1962) 🔊
The Image: Three Views—Ben Shahn, Darius Milhaud and James Baldwin Debate the Real Meaning of a Fashionable Term, Malcolm Preston (adapted from a symposium at Hofstra College, May 1961; originally published in Opera News, December 1962)
‘It’s Terrifying,’ James Baldwin: The Price of Fame, Nat Hentoff (originally published in The New York Herald Tribune, June 1963)
A Conversation with James Baldwin, Kenneth B. Clark (originally broadcast on WGBH, June 1963, though taped in May; published in Freedomways, Summer 1963, and reprinted as “There is No Compromise” in Negro Digest, October 1963) 📺
Race, Hate, Sex, and Colour: A Conversation with James Baldwin and Colin Maclnnes, James Mossman (originally broadcast on BBC; published in Encounter, July 1965)
James Baldwin Breaks His Silence, Cep Dergisi (originally published in English in Atlas, March 1967)
Disturber of the Peace: James Baldwin—An Interview, Eve Auchincloss and Nancy Lynch (originally published in Mademoiselle, May 1963, and reprinted in Black, White and Gray, edited by Bradford Daniel, Sheed and Ward, 1964)
Conversation: Ida Lewis and James Baldwin (originally published in Essence, October 1970, and reprinted as “Why I Left America” in New Black Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Literature, edited by Abraham Chapman, New American Library, 1972)
Are We on the Edge of Civil War?, David Frost (originally broadcast on “The David Frost Show,” April 1970; published in The Americans, by David Frost, Stein & Day, 1970)
James Baldwin Interviewed, John Hall (originally published in Transatlantic Review, Autumn–Winter 1970-71, and reprinted in Transition, No. 41, 1972)
It’s Hard to be James Baldwin, Herbert R. Lottman (originally published in Intellectual Digest, July 1972, and reprinted in Black Times, December 1972)
A Television Conversation: James Baldwin, Peregrine Worsthorne, Bryan Magee (originally published as “Arguing on the Box” in Encounter, September 1972)
Exclusive Interview with James Baldwin, Joe Walker (originally published in Muhammad Speaks, September–October 1972)
The Black Scholar Interviews James Baldwin (originally published in The Black Scholar, December 1973–January 1974)
James Baldwin Comes Home, Jewell Handy Gresham (originally published in Essence, June 1976)
The Artist Has Always Been a Disturber of the Peace, Yvonne Neverson (originally published in Africa: An International Business, Economic and Political Monthly, April 1978)
James Baldwin: No Gain for Race Relations, Hollie I. West (originally published as “James Baldwin: The Fire Still Burns” in The Washington Post, April 1979)
James Baldwin: Looking Towards the Eighties, Kalamu ya Salaam (originally published in The Black Collegian, December 1979–January 1980)
James Baldwin Finds New South Is a Myth, Leonard Ray Teel (originally published in The Atlanta Journal, April 1980)
James Baldwin, an Interview, Wolfgang Binder (originally published in Revista/Review Interamericana, Fall 1980)
In Dialogue to Define Aesthetics: James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Randall-Tsuruta (originally published in The Black Scholar, March–April 1981)
James Baldwin—Reflections of a Maverick, Julius Lester (originally published in The New York Times Book Review, May 1984)
The Art of Fiction LXXVIII: James Baldwin, Jordan Elgrably and George Plimpton (originally published in The Paris Review, Spring 1984)
Blues for Mr. Baldwin, Angela Cobbina (originally published in Concord Weekly, January 1985)
An Interview with Josephine Baker and James Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (originally published in The Southern Review, Summer 1985)
An Interview with James Baldwin, David C. Estes (originally published in New Orleans Review, Fall 1986)
Last Testament: An Interview with James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe (originally published in The Village Voice, January 1988)
James Baldwin, 1924-1987: A Tribute—The Last Interview, Quincy Troupe (originally published in Essence, March 1988)

Uncollected 📚

The Negro in American Culture (broadcast on WBAI, January 1961; published in CrossCurrents, Summer 1961; reprinted in The New Negro, edited by Mathew H. Ahmann, Fides Publishers, Inc., 1961, and reprinted in Negro Digest, March 1962) 🔊
The Black Muslims in America, with Malcolm X, C. Eric Lincoln, James Baldwin and George S. Schuyler, hosted by Eric F. Goldman (broadcast on “The Open Mind,” April 1961; published in Rac(e)ing to the Right: selected essays of George S. Schuyler, edited by Jeffrey B. Leak, University of Tennessee Press, 2001) 🔊
Native Son, W. J. Weatherby (published in The Guardian, November 1962)
A Conversation with James Baldwin (with Elsa Knight Thompson and John Leonard, broadcast by KPFA, June 1963 though taped in May; published in James Baldwin Review, September 2024) 🔊
The Negro Writer in America (adapted from a symposium at Howard University; published in The Howard University Magazine, and reprinted in Negro Digest, June 1963)
Freedom Day, 1963: A Lost Interview with James Baldwin, Fern Marja Eckman (1963 interview published in The New Yorker, September 2020)
James Baldwin, as interviewed by François Bondy (published in French as “Pour libérer les Blancs …” in Preuves, October 1963; published in English in Transition, January–February 1964)
Liberalism and the Negro: A Round-Table Discussion (published in Commentary, March 1964)
Playwright at Work, Walter Wager (published in Playbill, July 1964)
James Baldwin Gets ‘Older and Sadder,’ Nat Hentoff (published in The New York Times, April 1965)
What Kind of Men Cry?: Baldwin, Belafonte, Poitier Are Among Men Who Give Their Views On Subject (published in Ebony, June 1965)
Leadership from the Periphery, Robert Penn Warren (recorded in April 1964; published in Who Speaks for the Negro?, Random House, 1965) 🔊
James Baldwin … in Conversation, Dan Georgakas (published in Arts in Society, Summer 1966, and reprinted as “James Baldwin talking” in Crucible, Summer 1969)
Dialog in Black and White, James Baldwin and Budd Schulberg (published in Playboy, December 1966)
A Free Press Interview with James Baldwin, Hakim Jamal (published in Los Angeles Free Press, February 1968, and reprinted as “They Came to See if I'm for Real” in James Baldwin Review, September 2022)
James Baldwin Speaks His Mind, Hakim Jamal (published in Los Angeles Sentinel, April 1968)
How can we get the black people to cool it? (published in Esquire, July 1968)
Writer Foresees Collision Course, Nick Ludington (published in The Washington Post, December 1969)
“I’m Trying to be as Honest as I Can:” An Interview with James Baldwin, Nazar Büyüm (1969 interview published in English in James Baldwin Review, September 2015)
Interview with James Baldwin, Karen Wald (published in Liberation News Service, February 1970; reprinted in many small independent newspapers and magazines, such as Pandora’s Box, February 1970, and Come Out!, June–July 1970, and reprinted under alternate titles such as “James Baldwin on the Black Panthers” in Blue-Tail Fly, February 1970, and “We’re All Viet Cong” in HARRY, March 1970)
James Baldwin: Une Interview Exclusive, Nabile Farès (published in Jeune Afrique, September 1970; reprinted in Un Passager de l'Occident, by Nabile Farès, 1971; published in English in A Passenger from the West, translated by Peter Thompson, 2010, and reprinted in Transition, No. 105, 2011)
L’Express va plus loin avec James Baldwin (published in French in L’Express, August 1972; clipped and translated by the FBI)
“I live a hope despite my knowing better”: James Baldwin in Conversation with Fritz J. Raddatz (1978 interview published in English in James Baldwin Review, September 2018)
James Baldwin talks to Brandon Judell (published in New York Native, January 1981)
‘Go the Way Your Blood Beats’: An Interview with James Baldwin, Richard Goldstein (published in The Village Voice, June 1984)
My Interview With James Baldwin (published in Hampshire Reports, Winter 1984)
Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde (published in Essence, December 1984)
An Interview with James Baldwin on Henry James, David Adams Leeming (published in The Henry James Review, Fall 1986)
James Baldwin on Langston Hughes, Clayton Riley (1986 interview published in The Langston Hughes Review, Winter 1997)

Multimedia 🎙️🎥
*the following are interviews and conversations without a known published transcript

Encounter: On Being Black in America (with Nathan Cohen, broadcast on CBC, December 1960) [video via CBC Digital Archives]
Black Muslims vs the Sit-ins (a debate with Malcolm X, moderated by Leverne McCummins, broadcast by WBAI, April 1961) [audio via KPFA]
Bookstand: Writers and Writing: Wonder and Terror (with Peter Duval Smith, broadcast on BBC, April 1963) [video via YouTube]
Florida Forum (broadcast on WCKT, June 1963) [video via YouTube]
Hollywood Roundtable (a short film by USIA with Harry Belafonte, Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, Joseph Mankiewicz and Marlon Brando, moderated by David Schoenbrun, August 1963) [video via National Archives]
The Meaning of the Birmingham Tragedy (with Reinhold Niebuhr and Dr. Thomas C. Kilgore Jr., broadcast on “Our Protestant Heritage,” September 1963) [video via Presbyterian Historical Society]
Take This Hammer (a documentary film produced by KQED, 1964) [video via Bay Area Television Archive]
Yale Report: Writers on Writing (R.W.B. Lewis, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and William Styron discuss modern fiction writing, broadcast by WBAI, September 1967) [audio via Pacifica Radio Archives]
Baldwin and R.H. Darden (introduced by comedian Dick Van Dyke, broadcast by KPFK, April 1968) [audio via Archive.org]
The Confessions of Nat Turner (with William Styron and Ossie Davis, broadcast by KPFA, August 1968 though taped in May) [audio via Pacifica Radio Archives]
Our People (with Jim Tilman, broadcast on WTTW, August 1968) [video via YouTube, 25:00–46:00]
The Way It Is: On Race In America (with Moses Znaimer, broadcast on CBC, November 1968) [video via YouTube]
James Baldwin at City College San Francisco (news report featuring an interview by Ed Arnow, broadcast by KPIX, April 1969) [video via Bay Area Television Archive]
The Dick Cavett Show (part 2 with Paul Weiss; broadcast on ABC, May 1969) [videos — Part 1 and Part 2 — via YouTube]
Baldwin's Nigger (with Dick Gregory, a documentary film by Horace Ové, 1969) [video currently unavailable]
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (a documentary film by Terence Dixon, 1970) [video via MUBI]
Martin Luther King Speaks: Dear Angela (with Joe Walker and George Cain, broadcast by KPFA, June 1971) [audio via American Archive of Public Broadcasting]
Conversation with a Native Son (with Toni Morrison, broadcast on WNET, May 1975) [video via American Archive of Public Broadcasting]
Pantechnicon: Discussing The Devil Finds Work (broadcast by WGBH, April 1976) [audio via American Archive of Public Broadcasting, starts at 13:00]
Looting During New York Blackout (with Rep. Herman Badillo and Syl Williamson, broadcast on “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,” July 1977) [video via American Archive of Public Broadcasting, starts at 15:06]
Never Aired: Profile on James Baldwin (produced for ABC’s 20/20, 1979) [video via A Closer Look]
Interview with Visiting Faculty Member James Baldwin (with Larry Schwab, broadcast on “Five College Journal,” May 1984) [video via Hampshire College Archives and Special Collections]
Folks (broadcast on Louisiana Public Broadcasting, February 1986) [video via Louisiana Public Broadcasting, 1:40–12:46]
Mavis on Four (with Mavis Nicholson, broadcast on Channel Four, February 1987) [video via Thames Television Archive]

Other

One Day When I Was Lost (1972), a screenplay based on Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X 🏛️ 📖

Little Man, Little Man (1976), a children’s book, illustrated by Yoran Cazac 🏛️ 📖

Jimmy’s Blues (1983), a volume of poetry (the 2014 edition by Beacon Press also includes the six poems from Gypsy, a limited-edition second volume of Baldwin's poetry that was published posthumously in 1989) 🏛️ 📖

A Lover’s Question (1990), a jazz and spoken word album, produced by David Linx and Pierre Van Dormael 🔊

Native Sons (2004), a book by Baldwin's editor Sol Stein about their friendship, containing correspondence, photographs and a never-before-published story and play 🏛️ 📖

I Am Not Your Negro (2017), a documentary film directed by Raoul Peck (and companion book) based on Baldwin's unfinished manuscript “Remember This House” 🏛️ 📖 📺

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