He made a similar list in the title essay of "Notes of a Native Son" (one begins to feel that lists like this had been flung at him during arguments): "In some subtle way, in a really profound way, I brought to Shakespeare, Bach, Rembrandt, to the Stones of Paris, to the Cathedral at Chartres, and the Empire State Building a special attitude.
One week might look at new science fiction or horror, the next, the latest essay anthologies of note.
Over the next six years, which were spent mostly in Paris, Baldwin produced two novels, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni's Room, some of his best stories, and his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, made up of pieces published mainly in Partisan Review, Commentary and Harper's.
A writer himself, Stein was the editor of Baldwin's first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, in 1955.
Between the two novels came a collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son (1955).
His early writings form a collection of essays, "Notes of a Native Son".
He writes in the introductory "Autobiographical Notes" to his first collection of essays, entitled "Notes of a Native Son" and published in 1955, "I read 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' and 'A Tale of Two Cities,' over and over and over. . . .
Mr. Baldwin published his three most important collections of essays -"Notes of a Native Son" (1955), "Nobody Knows My Name" (1961) and "The Fire Next Time" (1963) - during the years when the civil-rights movement was exploding across the American South.
Reviewing Vargas Llosa's new collection of essays Notes on the Death of Culture, an indictment of the west's obsession with entertainment, novelist Joshua Cohen put the Peruvian writer in the "Grumpy Old Novelists" category, finding that "Vargas Llosa's novels have never hesitated to traffic in the same high-low blend he now bemoans".
"Stranger in the Village" first appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1953, and then in the essay collection "Notes of a Native Son," in 1955.
Angelou had no daughters herself, but was inspired to write Letter as she was going through 20 years of notes and essay ideas, some of which were written for her friend Oprah Winfrey.
