BALDWIN, James.

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Notes of a Native Son. First edition of the author's first book of essays. Baldwin's collected autobiographical reflections on race and politics in America made him famous as a commentator on the cultural experience of his time.Sales of Notes of a Native Son were initially slow, but the publication of Giovanni's Room (1956) and a laudatory review by Langston Hughes in the New York Times Review in 1958 brought Baldwin increased mainstream attention. Hughes wrote, "as an essayist he is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing... the thought becomes poetry, and the poetry illuminates the thought".

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