JAMES BALDWIN, by David Leeming; Alfred A. Knopf (442 pages, $25). (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | May 4, 1994| | Copyright

    The first thing you notice in a photograph of the late James Baldwin is his mournful stare. 
    When he was little, his teachers often commented on it. They knew this scrawny, sickly youngster was a genius. But they worried that he always looked so sad-yet-knowing, so filled with an air of profound melancholy, as if his stick-thin shoulders carried the weight of the world. 
    Decades later, Baldwin would attempt to shoulder a nation's racial conscience. Maybe the futility of that feat shone from those protruding eyes, from that deep brain case, from the smoldering depths of his ...

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