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JAMES BALDWIN

JAMES BALDWIN

JAMES BALDWIN
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JAMES BALDWIN Pb - 2015

by LEEMING,D

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  • Title JAMES BALDWIN
  • Author LEEMING,D
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Arcade Publishing
  • Publication date 2015-02-24
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9781628724387
  • ISBN 9781628724387 / 1628724382
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 1.3 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
  • Category Nonfiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, African American authors
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

"The most revealing and subjectively penetrating assessment of Baldwin's life yet published." --The New York Times Book Review. "The first Baldwin biography in which one can recognize the human features of this brilliant, troubled, principled, supremely courageous man." --Boston Globe

James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon--Go Tell It on a Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen--he explored issues of race and racism in America, class distinction, and sexual difference.

A gay, African American writer who was born in Harlem, he found the freedom to express himself living in exile in Paris. When he returned to America to cover the Civil Rights movement, he became an activist and controversial spokesman for the movement, writing books that became bestsellers and made him a celebrity, landing him on the cover of Time.

In this biography, David Leeming creates an intimate portrait of a complex, troubled, driven, and brilliant man. He plumbs every aspect of Baldwin's life: his relationships with the unknown and the famous, including painter Beauford Delaney, Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, and childhood friend Richard Avedon; his expatriate years in France and Turkey; his gift for compassion and love; the public pressures that overwhelmed his quest for happiness, and his passionate battle for black identity, racial justice, and to "end the racial nightmare and achieve our country."

About the author

David Leeming, emeritus professor of English at the University of Connecticut, was a friend of James Baldwin for twenty-five years as well as his assistant from 1963 to 1967. He is also the author of several works on world mythology, including The World of Myth: An Anthology and Medusa: In the Mirror of Time. He lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

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