Additional Resources for James Baldwin

• This website provides a biography of James Baldwin as well as a list of his major works. PBS featured him in the American Masters series and there is a link on the webpage for local broadcasts of James Baldwin: The Price of a Ticket.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/baldwin_j.html

• This website includes a long list of links for James Baldwin’s works, biography, and criticism as well as providing some sample lesson plans for teaching Baldwin to students.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/baldwin.htm

• This link shows Baldwin featured on the cover of the May 17, 1963 issue of TIME magazine

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19630517,00.html

• This video shows an interview with Baldwin who speaks about his childhood growing up in Harlem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhU2iKMEXUQ

• Works of Fiction:

Baldwin, J. (1957). Giovanni’s Room. Michael Joseph.

Baldwin, J. (1980). Just Above my Head. Corgi Books.

References

Schultz, F. (Ed.). (2001). Sources: Notable Selections in Education (3rd ed.). Guilford:

McGraw-Hill/Dushkin