Notes of a Native Son Spencer Johnson Features a New Introduction by

Features a New Introduction by Jeanette Winterson

and Anthony Horowitz

'A feat of monumental thematic imagination' - The New York Times Book Review

she befriends the Scarecrow

and his father

Notes of a Native Son Spencer Johnson Features a New Introduction by'The story of the negro in America is the story of America it is not a very pretty story' James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.