This page offers a collection of resources on James Baldwin’s life and legacy. You can find information on his life, secondary literature and further bibliographies beyond his book list, and art and culture inspired by Baldwin. This page will be updated periodically. If you have suggestions for this page, please contact us.
Biography
- James Baldwin Project: Biography and Timeline
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: An Introduction to James Baldwin and 10 Questions About the Life of James Baldwin
- Poetry Foundation: Biography
- David Leeming: James Baldwin: A Biography
Bibliographies / Secondary Literature
- Oxford Bibliographies: D. Quentin Miller (2023) and Magdalena J. Zaborowska (2016)
- University of Chicago: Bibliography
- The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin (2015)
- Eddie S. Glaude Jr.: Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (2021)
- Hilton Als: God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin (2024)
Current Exhibits
- National Portrait Gallery: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: JIMMY! God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth
- New York Public Library: James Baldwin: Mountain to Fire
- The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History: Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin
Films and Videos
Many of these links require access to Princeton University's library services
- James Baldwin: Speech on Civil Rights (1968)
- The Price of the Ticket (1990)
- James Baldwin: From Another Place (2007)
- Tell it on the Mountain (1985)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
- I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin and Race in America (2016)
- James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni: A Conversation (1971)
Archival Materials
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: James Baldwin Correspondences
- New York Public Library: Digital Collections
Recent Coverage
- PBS: A look at James Baldwin's enduring influence on art and activism
- Lit Hub: A Century of James Baldwin
Other Resources
- Duke University Press: Resources
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: James Baldwin Digital Resource Guide
- James Baldwin Review
- Penguin Random House: The Baldwin 100 podcast
- WNYC: Notes on a Native Son podcast with Razia Iqbal (SPIA)
Inspired By Baldwin
- Terrance Hayes: American Sonnet For My Past and Future Assassin [When James Baldwin & Audre Lorde each lend]
- Terrance Hayes: American Sonnet For My Past and Future Assassin [Seven of the ten things]
- Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin