FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, FEBRUARY 1993

Copyright © 1962, 1963 by James Baldwin
Copyright renewed 1990, 1991 by Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by The Dial Press, New York, in 1963.

Down at the Cross originally appeared in The New Yorker under the title Letter from a Region in My Mind.

My Dungeon Shook originally appeared in The Progressive, Madison, Wisconsin.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Baldwin, James, 1924—
The fire next time / James Baldwin.
p.      cm.
eISBN: 978-0-8041-4972-3
1. Afro-Americans. 2. United States—Race relations. 3. Black Muslims. I. Title.
E185.61.B195    1993
305.896′073—dc20         92-50566

Cover design by Marc J. Cohen
Photography: Burt Glinn/Magnum Photos

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