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James Baldwin
a biography
By Leeming, David Adams
- ISBN
- 978-0-39457-708-1
- Publisher
- New York : Knopf, c1994.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 1994
Conscience-afflicting prose that probed what it meant to be an American, a Negro, and a male put Baldwin (1924-87) in the first rank of 20th-century American writers. His one-time personal secretary Leeming argues in this biography, which Baldwin reportedly authorized before his death, that the writer was a prophet and witness tormented by demon...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
