Notes of a Native Son. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.
Studies of James Baldwin’s Autobiographical Work
Brunn, R.R. Rev. of Notes of a Native Son. Christian Science Monitor, December 16, 1955, 9.
Chapman, Abraham. Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Cunningham, James. “Public and Private Rhetorical Modes in the Essays of James Baldwin.” In Essays on the Essay: Redefining the Genre. Ed. Alexander J. Butrym. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. 192–203.
Ford, Nick Aaron. “The Evolution of James Baldwin as Essayist.” In James Baldwin: A Critical Evaluation. Ed. Therman B. O’Daniel. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1977. 85–104.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Nellie M. McKay, eds. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: W.W. Norton, 1977.Jackson, Jocelyn W. “The Problem of Identity in Selected Early Essays of James Baldwin.” In Critical Essays on James Baldwin. Ed. Fred L. Standley and Nancy V. Burt. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988. 250–66.
Patterson, Orlando. “The Essays of James Baldwin.’’ New Left Review 26 (Summer 1964): 31–38.
Porter, Horace A. Stealing the Fire: The Art and Protest of James Baldwin. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989.
Rainer, Dachine. “Rage into Order.” Rev. of Notes of a Native Son. Commonweal (January 13, 1956): 384.
Redding, Saunders. Rev. of Notes of a Native Son. New York Herald Tribune Book Review (February 26, 1956): 4.
Rev. of Notes of a Native Son. U.S. Quarterly Book Review (March 1956): 35.
Rusk, Lauren. “Selfhood and Strategy in Notes of a Native Son.” In Re-Viewing James Baldwin & Things Not Seen. Ed. D. Quentin Miller. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. 360–92.