James Baldwin

MB was shaped by her reading outside school. She never entered a bookshop until she was fourteen, but relied on libraries. Early favourites were C. S. Lewis 's Narnia books, Johanna Spyri 's Heidi books...

MA 's autobiographies mention many friends important in her life. In Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, for instance, a prominent character is Ivonne Broadnax , the Realist. Angelou's living successively...

She became a celebrity, and became acquainted with other celebrities, like Norman Mailer , James Baldwin , and Harry Belafonte .

PB says that one stage she threw away the manuscript of this novel in despair, but her husband rescued it from the bin. She said she felt the absence of models for writing fiction...

The title poem had been jotted in fragments during children's naps, brief hours in a library or at three am after rising with a wakeful child. The collection followed on intensive reading of such...

Colloquially, with the rise of black consciousness in the US, the term Uncle Tom came to stand for slave complicity, and HBS 's work fell into both political and literary disrepute. James Baldwin first attracted...

This novel was naturally compared with James Baldwin 's Giovanni's Room (which also came out in 1956 in London, after rejection by Baldwin's US publisher), and both were praised for their subtle yet open treatment...

TM spoke, along with Maya Angelou , Amiri Imamu , and the French ambassador, at the funeral of writer James Baldwin at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York.

After a commemorative event at Carnegie Hall to mark the centenary of the birth of W. E. B. Du Bois (which MA attended with the Baldwin family to hear Pete Seeger sing and James Baldwin

All her life FOC remained closer to unreformed white-Southern racial attitudes than was always comfortable for her more liberal friends. She told Maryat in 1959 that while she would be happy to meet James Baldwin

Walker herself felt that the movie, though far more conventional than the novel, had still captured a lot of the soul of the people. But the furore over both novel and film took its...

The book and one of the chapters are headed with epigraphs, from Marguerite Duras and Elena Ferrante . Other writers or artists who are referred or appealed to include Emily Dickinson , James Baldwin ...

The book is arranged in three parts: The Foreigner's Home, Black Matter(s), and God's Language. Each part opens with an address to the dead: respectively, to those killed on 11 September 2001...

MS was bored by modern movements like the anti-novel, the sicks and the beats, but felt there was a place for them: they're trying things out, keeping literature alive and moving. She thought her...

While revolutionising her life and poetic practice, making them woman-centred, Rich continued in dialogue with the words and ideas of male writers. In learning how poetry can root itself in politics she was learning from...