James Baldwin: A Biography.

African American Review | June 22, 1997| | Copyright

David Leeming. James Baldwin: A Biography. New York: Knopf. 1994. 457 pp. $15.95.

Terry Eagleton recently observed that "the structure of biography is biology: even the most wayward of geniuses have to get themselves born and educated, fight with their parents, fall in love and die." Undoubtedly, David Leeming's James Baldwin embodies this principle, for it opens with the circumstance of the subject's illegitimate birth on August 2, 1924, and closes with an account of his funeral on December 8, 1987. Within these perimeters the roster of Baldwin's interactions and ...

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