| Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son | |
| Author: | James Baldwin |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Essays |
| Publisher: | Dial Press |
| Release Date: | 1961 |
| Isbn: | 0-679-74473-8 |
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son is a collection of essays, published by Dial Press in July 1961, by American author James Baldwin. Like Baldwin's first collection, Notes of a Native Son (publ. 1955), it includes revised versions of several of his previously published essays, as well as new material.
| Essay title | Original appearance | Original title/adaption | |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American" | The New York Times Book Review, 25 January 1959 | ||
| "Princes and Powers" | Encounter, January 1957 | ||
| "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem" | Esquire, July 1960 | ||
| "East River, Downtown: Postscript to a Letter from Harlem" | The New York Times Magazine, March 12, 1961 | "A Negro Assays the Negro Mood" | |
| "A Fly in Buttermilk" | Harper's, October 1958 | "The Hard Kind of Courage" | |
| "Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South" | Partisan Review, Winter 1959 | ||
| "Faulkner and Desegregation | Partisan Review, Fall 1956 | ||
| "In Search of a Majority" | Adapted from an address delivered at Kalamazoo College, February 1960 | ||
| "The Male Prison" | The New Leader, December 13, 1954 | "Gide as Husband and Homosexual" | |
| "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel" | Adapted from an address delivered at an Esquire magazine symposium on "Writing in America Today," San Francisco State College, 22–24 October 1960 | ||
| "The Northern Protestant" | Esquire, April 1960 | "The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman" | |
| "Alas, Poor Richard" | Section 1: Reporter, 16 March 1961 | "The Survival of Richard Wright" | |
| Section 2: Encounter, April 1961 | "Richard Wright"[1] | ||
| Section 3: Nobody Knows My Name | |||
| "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" | Esquire, May 1961 |
In The New York Times, Irving Howe called it a "brilliant new collection of essays." He adds, "To take a cue from his title, we had better learn his name."[2]