Born in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin had an early career as a teenage preacher. He lived in Paris from 1948-1956 and his first novels, the autobiographical GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN and GIOVANNI'S ROOM established him as a promising novelist and anticipated some of the themes of his later works, such as racism and sexuality. He became a prominent spokesperson for racial equality, especially during the civil rights movement. He lived in France during his last years. Baldwin died in 1987.
If Beale Street Could Talk affirms not only love between a man and
a woman, but love of a type that is dealt with only rarely in
contemporary fiction - that between members of a family
*Joyce Carol Oates*
Soulful . . . Racial injustice may flatten "the black experience"
into one single, fearful, constantly undermined way of life-but
black life, black love, is so much larger than that . . . It's one
of the signature lessons of Baldwin's work that blackness contains
multitudes
*Vanity Fair*
Truth-telling, witness bearing, soul stirring writing
*Cornel West*
The spirit of Jimmy's work is of a high moral prophetic vision
*Amriri Baraka*
One of the few essential novelists of our time
*New Statesman*
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