The Fire Next Time

Name: The Fire Next Time
ISBN: 9780679744726

James Baldwin

1963·106 pages·Nonfiction

Biography History & Politics

class struggle classics culture clash epistolary essays faith and doubt

National Book Award (1964) · Nominee

“sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle…all presented in searing, brilliant prose”
— The New York Times Book Review

When it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,” written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.

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