My favorite letter in the Baldwin archive, written by hand from a fan in Pittsburgh, regards Beale Street. The writer ...

The Brilliance in James Baldwin’s Letters By Vann R. Newkirk II The famous author, who would have been 100 years old today, ...

Baldwin would exercise that right to sweeping effect, seven years later, with “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” which appeared in The New Yorker in the fall of 1962.

My favorite letter in the Baldwin archive, written by hand from a fan in Pittsburgh, regards Beale Street. The writer describes sharing the novel with the man they love, who is incarcerated.