James Baldwin: Bearing Witness to His Times

The Washington Post | April 16, 1989| | Copyright

JAMES BALDWIN Artist on Fire By W.J. Weatherby Donald I. Fine. 412 pp. $19.95

JAMES BALDWIN The Legacy Edited by Quincy Troupe Touchstone/Simon and Schuster 267 pp. $10.95; cloth, $21.95

AT THE TIME of James Baldwin's death in 1987, the critical consensus (my own included) was that something in Baldwin's writing had died several years earlier. His recent works were largely ignored, perhaps considered passe'. When I taught Baldwin in my classes, I tended to regard his work as locked into the 1960s. As W.J. Weatherby states in his moving and poignant portrait of the writer, "The more the ...

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