Nonfiction Classics for Students provides in-depth literary and historical background on the most commonly studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies and memoirs in a streamlined, easy-to-use format. Classics in this volume include: "Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin "Autobiography of Mark Twain" by Mark Twain "Diary of Samuel Pepys" by Samuel Pepys "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" by Rebecca West "In the American Grain" by William Carlos Williams...