Profile. A brief biography of James Baldwin, writer and social critic.
DJ Acyde on James Baldwin: the prescient novelist, social critic, and timeless style master.
Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time 'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying who he is, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man. It is a decision that will bring tragedy. 'Exquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' Guardian 'Gorgeous, fearless, tempered by dark knowledge and pain ... the greatest American prose stylist of his generation' Colm Tóibín 'A layered exploration of queer desire ... It is electric' Hilton Als
The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it. | James Baldwin Quote
First edition of the James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, designed by Paul Bacon. From Wikipedia: It contains two essays: “My Dungeon Shook – Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation” and “Down At The Cross – Letter from a Region of My