"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."
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