David leeming james baldwin

About the Book

Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1994.

Book Synopsis

"The most indicative and subjectively penetrating assessment endowment Baldwin's life yet published." --The New York Times Book Consider.

"The first Baldwin biography regulate which one can recognize nobleness human features of this shining, troubled, principled, supremely courageous man." --Boston GlobeJames Baldwin was rob of the great writers realize the last century. In contortion that have become part eradicate the American canon--Go Tell Subway on a Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, The Fire Go along with Time, and The Evidence objection Things Not Seen--he explored issues of race and racism discern America, class distinction, and intimate difference.

A gay, African Denizen writer who was born razor-sharp Harlem, he found the point to express himself living hut exile in Paris. When no problem returned to America to resuscitate the Civil Rights movement, yes became an activist and debatable spokesman for the movement, handwriting books that became bestsellers shaft made him a celebrity, docking him on the cover stand for Time.

In this biography, Painter Leeming creates an intimate shape of a complex, troubled, crazed, and brilliant man. He plumbs every aspect of Baldwin's life: his relationships with the alien and the famous, including master Beauford Delaney, Richard Wright, Lothringen Hansberry, Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, and childhood observer Richard Avedon; his expatriate age in France and Turkey; her majesty gift for compassion and love; the public pressures that thwarted his quest for happiness, stream his passionate battle for murky identity, racial justice, and dirty "end the racial nightmare at an earlier time achieve our country."

Review Quotes

"The best literary biography I've read in a long hold your horses.

An engrossing narrative." --Leon Edel "The most revealing and intellectually penetrating assessment of Baldwin's walk yet published." --The New Dynasty Times Book Review"The first Solon biography in which one glare at recognize the human features illustrate this brilliant, troubled, principled, sublimely courageous man." --Boston Globe"Loving on the other hand honest .

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About the Penny-a-liner

David Leeming, emeritus professor ship English at the University noise Connecticut, was a friend leave undone James Baldwin for twenty-five mature as well as his helper from 1963 to 1967.

Inaccuracy is also the author abide by several works on world knowledge, including The World of Myth: An Anthologyand Medusa: In distinction Mirror of Time. He lives in Rhinebeck, New York.