Publication
Knopf (1994), Edition: 1st, 442 pages
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Content and Summary Info
Bisexual Content: James Baldwin (cisgender man) had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.
Intersecting Marginalized Identities: James Baldwin was black and from a working-class background.
Publisher's Summary: ...introduces the writer as a speck of glittering light born amid Harlem's alienating poverty and despair who in manhood stretched the enormous distance to greatness with love for humankind in his heart and a pen in his hand. He shares the pain Baldwin endured and the terrors he confronted. He even reveals Baldwin's remarkable gift for exposing the unlit crevices of some of America's darkest moments...