Nobody Knows My Name

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.

Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son

First edition cover
Author	James Baldwin
Language	English
Genre	Essays
Publisher	Dial Press
Publication date	1961
Publication place	United States
ISBN	0-679-74473-8

Essays

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

Critical reception

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]

References

1. A French translation of "Richard Wright" appeared in Preuves, February 1961, entitled "Richard Wright, tel que je l'ai connu"
2. Howe, Irving (July 2, 1961). "Nobody Knows My Name". The New York Times.