The works of James Baldwin constitute one of the major
contributions to American literature in the twentieth
century, and nowhere is this more evident than in The
Price of the Ticket, a compendium of nearly fifty years
of Baldwin's powerful nonfiction writing. With truth and
insight, these personal, prophetic works speak to the heart
of the experience of race and identity in the United States.
Here are the full texts of Notes of a Native Son, Nobody
Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street,
and The Devil Finds Work, along with dozens of
other pieces, ranging from a 1948 review of Raintree
Country to a magnificent introduction to this book that,
as so many of Mr. Baldwin's works do, combines his intensely
private experience with the deepest examination of social
interaction between the races. In a way, The Price of the
Ticket is an intellectual history of the
twentieth-century American experience; in another, it is
autobiography of the highest order.
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