"Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin "I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.

The book, organized in sections centered around the writer's four great loves, details how Baldwin spent decades wrestling with his own sexuality, racism in the U.S. and abroad and the cost of fame.

The biographer’s Baldwin: A Love Story unpacks James Baldwin’s life and work through accounts of his four most significant relationships. How did you decide which relationships would mark meaningful ...

"James Baldwin: The Price of The Ticket" recounts the life and influence of author James Baldwin using a combination of archival footage of Baldwin and contemporary interviews with his surviving ...

Drawing on Baldwin’s letters and his and others’ autobiographical writings, as well as on interviews with those who knew him—including the first lengthy interview with Baldwin’s lover and ...

James Baldwin is directly connected to Duke Ellington and John Coltrane in my mind, thanks to the 90-minute documentary James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket. When the Paris section of the film ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) James Baldwin was more than a novelist, playwright, and essayist—he was a witness. He bore witness to the struggle of Black Americans, the contradictions of the American Dream, and ...