![]() ![]() Previously, at least three major biographies of Baldwin were published in the 20th century. ![]() ![]() Ta-Nehisi Coates modeled his acclaimed 2015 book Between the World and Me on Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. In 2016, young Black writers and activists responded to Baldwin’s 1963 essays The Fire Next Time with a book of essays, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race.Īnother major biography, Douglas Field’s All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin, was published in 2015. His 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk was adapted for a 2018 film by filmmaker Barry Jenkins, and Raoul Peck’s 2016 film I Am Not Your Negro has become a major documentary on Baldwin. Both are motivated, to some extent, by a renewed interest in Baldwin since the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, which was started, I note, by three Black women-Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors.īaldwin seems to be everywhere these days. ![]()
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