James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name records the last months of this famed American writer's ten-year self-exile in Europe; his return to America and Harlem; his first trip South at the time of the school integration battles. It contains Mr. Baldwin's controversial and intimate profiles of Norman Mailer, Richard Wright and Ingmar Bergman. And it explores such varied themes as the relations between Negroes and whites, the role of the Negro in America and in Europe, and the question of sexual identity.

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