Author: James Baldwin

 

(ph: Ted Thai)

James Arthur Baldwin was an American writer and activist. As a writer, he garnered acclaim across various mediums, including essays, novels, plays, and poems.

Bio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin

I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

Congenial visualization of an ambitious and complex literary concept seems true to James Baldwin's intended message and also manages to emphasize its relevance today.

First Lines: James Baldwin - Notes of a Native Son

In Uncle Tom's Cabin, that cornerstone of American social protest fiction, St. Clare, the kindly master, remarks to his coldy disapproving cousin, Miss Ophelia, that, so far as he is able to tell, the blacks have been turned over to the devil for the benefit of the whites in this world - however, he adds thoughtfully, it may turn out in the next.

From my vaults: James Baldwin

 

Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin_%28writer%29

First Lines: James Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain

 

Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.