Illustrations Author's Note Acknowledgements I. No Story, Ma II. Lord, I ain't No Stranger Now III. A Severe Cross IV. Tear This Building Down V. The Price of the Beat Afterward to the 2002 Edition Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Index
James Campbell is the author of This Is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris (California, 2001), Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and Others on the Left Bank (1995), and Invisible Country: A Journey through Scotland (1990). He works for the Times Literary Supplement.
"James Campbell has ably blended both scholarship and personal
recollection."
*New York Times Book Review*
"Must reading for anyone interested in James Baldwin."
*Washington Post Book World*
"Frank and affectionate. . . . Approaching Baldwin without
reverence, though not quite irreverently, Campbell brings a mixture
of intellectual integrity and something like truculence to the
biographer's task."
*Times Literary Supplement*
"Campbell has met the challenge and written a first-rate work. The
best biography so far. . . . He deals not only with the facts of
his subject's life but also with his works."
*Chicago Tribune*
"A life-sized portrait in very broad strokes. . . . . A lively book
that is immensely readable, serious, careful, and informed."
*Boston Sunday Globe*
"A marvelously illuminating literary biography . . . . [and]
an affectionate yet critical portrait."
*Publishers Weekly*
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