Today is the birthday of one of my favorite writers, James Baldwin. Born in 1924 and fleeing to Paris at 24 years old in 1948, Baldwin went on to write some of the 20th century’s most acclaimed and revered works of literature, whether it be daming essays about the state of America and racism or the Algerian dilemma in France or fictional musings on intimacy and destruction.
Giovanni’s Room
Yeah, Happy Birthday James Baldwin!