James Baldwin Biography. You May Also Like. John Muir in the New World. Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise. Eugene O’Neill: A Glory of Ghosts. Norman Mailer: Mailer on Mailer. James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was a gay American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist.His essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in the Western society of the United States during the mid twentieth-century. Baldwin moved to Greenwich Village and began to write a novel, supporting himself by performing a variety of odd jobs. In 1944 he met author Richard Wright, who helped him to land the 1945 Eugene F. Saxton fellowship. Despite the financial freedom the fellowship provided, Baldwin was unable to complete his novel that year.

Remember This House is an unfinished manuscript by James Baldwin, a memoir of his personal recollections of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.^[1][2]

Following Baldwin's 1987 death, publishing company McGraw-Hill sued his estate to recover the $200,000 advance they had paid him for the book, although the lawsuit was dropped by 1990.^[1] The manuscript forms the basis for Raoul Peck's 2016 documentary film I Am Not Your Negro.^[3]

In February 2017, Vintage International published the book I Am Not Your Negro to accompany the documentary.^[2]

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James Baldwin Books He Wrote

1. ^ ^abCohen, Roger (May 19, 1990). 'McGraw-Hill Drops Baldwin Suit'. The New York Times. The New York Times Company. p. 1014. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
2. ^ ^abFarley, Christopher John (January 25, 2017). ''I Am Not Your Negro' Gives Fresh Voice to James Baldwin'. The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
3. ^Young, Deborah (September 20, 2016). ''I Am Not Your Negro': Film Review TIFF 2016'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 August 2018.

External links[edit]

• I Am Not Your Negro at IMDb

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