James Baldwin
Baldwin, James - 1924–87, American author, b. New York City. He spent an impoverished boyhood in Harlem and at 14 became a preacher in the Fireside Pentecostal Church. His first two novels, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), reflecting his experience as a young preacher, and Giovanni's Room (1956), which dealt with his homosexuality, were written while he lived in Paris. He returned to the Read More...
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James Baldwin
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The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy
by Lawrie Balfour. 192 pgs.
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The Racial Problem in the Works of Richard Wright and James Baldwin
by Jean-Francois Gounard, Joseph J. Rodgers Jr. 303 pgs.
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Modern Black American Fiction Writers ("James Baldwin: 1924-1987" begins on p. 29)
by Harold Bloom. 167 pgs.
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The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction (Chap. 4 "James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain")
by Maxine Lavon Montgomery. 118 pgs.
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Parallel Perversions: Interracial and Same Sexuality in James Baldwin's Another Country, in MELUS
by Stefanie Dunning. 18 pgs.
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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature (1960) ("Baldwin, James" begins on p. 32)
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.
