One Day When I was Lost: A Scenario | Topics for Further Study

• James Baldwin’s One Day, When I Was Lost: A
Scenario is based on Alex Haley’s The Autobiography
of Malcolm X. Read Haley’s book and
write a paper on the similarities and the differences
between these two works. What liberties
did Baldwin take? What characters did he change?
Did these changes strengthen or weaken Baldwin’s
work in your estimation?

• Baldwin worked with Columbia Pictures for a
while, in an attempt to turn One Day, When I was
Lost: A Scenario into a movie. Columbia became
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