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A second collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eNobody Knows My Name\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1961 between his novels \u003ci\u003eGiovanni's Room\u003c\/i\u003e (1956) and \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e (1961). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe appearance of \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e in 1963, just as the civil rights movement was exploding across the American South, galvanized the nation and continues to reverberate as perhaps the most prophetic and defining statement ever written of the continuing costs of Americans' refusal to face their own history. It became a national bestseller, and Baldwin was featured on the cover of Time magazine. Critic Irving Howe said that \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e achieved \"heights of passionate exhortation unmatched in modern American writing.\" In 1964 \u003ci\u003eBlues for Mister Charlie\u003c\/i\u003e, his play based on the murder of a young black man in Mississippi, was produced by the Actors Studio in New York. That same year, Baldwin was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and collaborated with the photographer Richard Avedon on \u003ci\u003eNothing Personal\u003c\/i\u003e, a series of portraits of America intended as a eulogy for the slain Medger Evers. 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