Baldwin, James (Vol. 2) | Baldwin, James 1924–
Baldwin, James 1924–
Baldwin, a Black American novelist, essayist, and playwright, is best known for his novel Another Country. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
James Baldwin's Another Country is a novel about love and hate, and more about hate than love. In its totality and with all due allowance for occasional weaknesses in the writing, it is one of the most powerful novels of our time. The complexities of love have seldom been explored more subtly or at greater depth, and perhaps the power of hate has never been communicated with a more terrifying force.
Granville Hicks, in Saturday Review (copyright © 1962 by Saturday Review; first appeared in Saturday Review, July 7, 1962; used with permission), July 7, 1962.
James Baldwin [is] unquestionably one of the most brilliant young writers in America today. A mad reality confronts all our...
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