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.

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

Baldwin's essay "My Dungeon Shook," written in the form of a letter to his young nephew, was first published in The Progressive in 1962; the following year a revised version was included in "The ...

The nonfiction work contains two of Baldwin's political essays, the first of which is written as a letter to Baldwin's 14-year-old nephew.To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR ...

James Baldwin was a brilliant writer and a steadfast civil rights activist. ... The book is written in the form of a letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ to his then-fifteen-year-old son Samori.

A 1945 portrait of James Baldwin by the photographer Richard Avedon, his high school friend with whom he sometimes collaborated. It is in the lobby of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black ...

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.