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Many-Sided Baldwin, A Prophet of Prose
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James Baldwin A Biography.
By David Leeming.
Knopf. $25.
James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote that he wanted to be "an
honest man and a good writer." These seem to be modest goals, but
are exceedingly difficult to attain with any consistency.
Baldwin not only attained his goals, he consistently wrote rings
around them, built a range of breathtaking mountains above them. He
scaled the highest literary peaks and in a mellifluous, brave voice
brought a thunderstorm of Old Testa...
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James Baldwin: A Biography.
The Economist (US)
; JAMES BALDWIN: A BIOGRAPHY. By David Leeming. Alfred Knopf; 388 pages; $25. Pelham; Pounds 20 POP-EYED, skinny, pigeon-toed Jimmy Baldwin was nobody's idea of a popular political hero. He was black, homosexual, illegitimate, lonely, funny, a self-exiled aesthete whose literary master was Henry
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Reconstructing Henry James: The Heiress (1949)
Literature/Film Quarterly
; The presumed difficulty of adapting Henry James for the screen has preoccupied many recent critics. Susie Gibson suggests that the directors of many recent adaptations, including Washington Square (1997), have concentrated on "the irrelevant yet somehow compulsory history scene" at the expense of
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Baldwin, boxed. (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture honors writer James Baldwin) (Books and Arts)
The Economist (US)
; Black American culture Baldwin, boxed NEW YORK IT WAS nobody's fault; but because the show was held in Harlem before a largely black audience, the celebration of James Baldwin's life last weekend diminished him. A great writer, the author of Go Tell It On The Mountain , Giovanni's Room and Another
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`Ticket' reveals life, passion of Baldwin // Documentary on PBS tells author's story
Chicago Sun-Times
; He was an artist with the soul of a preacher. A world traveler whose psychic roots were deeply planted in the streets of Harlem. A civil rights activist who was often tempted by despair, but refused to abandon hope. A teacher, whose favorite subject was the novels of an earlier expatriate, Henry
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Henry James Scholar, Mary Cross, Addresses Friends of the Library
Solares Hill
; Henry James scholar Mary Cross presents a talk illustrated with slides and video on "The Women of Henry James," which will describe the heroines of James' novels and their various dilemmas of love and marriage, on Monday March 21. The program begins at 6 p.m. and will be held at the Tropic Cinema,
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