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"James Baldwin was one of America's finest and most influential writers. By the time he died in 1987, his books, such as The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Giovanni's Room, had become modern classics.".
"James Campbell knew Baldwin for ten years before Baldwin's death. For this book, he interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and examined several hundred pages of correspondence. He quotes from the vast and disturbing file that the FBI compiled on Baldwin, and he discusses Baldwin's sometimes turbulent relationships with Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Marlon Brando, as well as his friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr.".
"This literary biography takes its title from a slave novel that Baldwin planned but never finished. Elegantly written, candid, and original, Talking at the Gates is a comprehensive account of the life and work of a writer who believed that "the unexamined life is not worth living.""--BOOK JACKET.
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Biography, American Authors, Afro-American authors, African American authors, Biographies, Biographie, Écrivains américains, African American authors -- 20th century -- Biography., African Americans, Authors, american, Baldwin, james, 1924-1987People
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Talking at the gates: a life of James Baldwin : with a new afterword
2002, University of California Press
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Talking at the gates: a life of James Baldwin
1992, Penguin Books
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Talking at the gates: a life of James Baldwin
1991, Viking
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Talking at the gates: a life of James Baldwin
1991, Faber and Faber
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