The Story of Roland | About the Author

The late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American author James Baldwin provides a striking example of how a young person's love of reading can dramatically affect his or her later life. Baldwin was born on December 15, 1841, at an isolated Quaker settlement in rural Indiana (Hamilton County), a community in which few people owned any book other than the Bible, and where reading was viewed with suspicion. Fortunately, Baldwin's own home was an exception to the rule in this backwoods community, for Baldwin's father had assembled an extensive personal library. At an early age Baldwin...

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