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Going to Meet the Man
James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor.
"He is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and
amusing. And he uses words as the sea uses waves." —Langston
Hughes
“If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is
our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje
“This author retains a place in an extremely select group; that
composed of the few genuinely indispensable American
writers.” —Saturday Review
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