Baldwin's Harlem A Biography of James Baldwin

Name: Baldwin's Harlem A Biography of James Baldwin
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ISBN: 9780743293082

ISBN-10: 0743293088

ISBN-13: 9780743293082

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Authors: Herb Boyd

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Baldwin's Harlemis an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). The events there that shaped his youth greatly influenced Baldwin's work, much of which focused on his experiences as a black man in white America.Go Tell It on the Mountain,The Fire Next Time,Notes of a Native Son, andGiovanni's Roomare just a few of his classic fiction and nonfiction books that remain an essential part of the American canon. In Baldwin's Harlem, award-winning journalist Herb Boyd combines impeccable biographical research with astute literary criticism, and reveals to…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication date: 12/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Herb Boyd teaches at the College of New Rochelle & New York University. He lives in New York City.



Foreword



Preface



Born in Harlem



Encountering Countee Cullen



Langston Hughes



Sanctuary



Death in Harlem



Malcolm X



The Harlem Six



The Jewish Question



Harlem, Real and Imagined



Cruse's Crisis



Baraka


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Interviews


Chronology of Major Events in James Baldwin's Life


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Credits and Permissions


Index