Dec 30, 2009
Best known for his novels and essays, James Baldwin contributed to every contemporary genre except poetry. Baldwin established his literary reputation with Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a novel that anticipates the thematic concerns of The Amen Corner. Subsequent novels, including Another Country (1962), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974), and Just Above My Head (1979), along with the brilliant story “Sonny’s Blues” (1957), confirmed Baldwin’s stature as a leading figure in postwar American fiction. Several of...
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