Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James
Baldwin
"I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be
defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only." When, in
the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of
France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin's brother David told him
to ask Baldwin about everything--Baldwin was critically ill and
David knew that this might be the writer's last chance to speak at
length about his life and work.
The result is one of the most eloquent and revelatory interviews of
Baldwin's career, a conversation that ranges widely over such
topics as his childhood in Harlem, his close friendship with Miles
Davis, his relationship with writers like Toni Morrison and Richard
Wright, his years in France, and his ever-incisive thoughts on the
history of race relations and the African-American experience.
Also collected here are significant interviews from other moments
in Baldwin's life, including an in-depth interview conducted by
Studs Terkel shortly after the publication of "Nobody Knows My
Name." These interviews showcase, above all, Baldwin's fearlessness
and integrity as a writer, thinker, and individual, as well as the
profound struggles he faced along the way.
"From the eBook edition."
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