James Baldwin: The Life Album

An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, intellectual, and activist who led a celebrated public life—and whose words and image and persona remain current in our culture. Baldwin’s many incarnations—“son of Harlem,” “Black icon,” “great twentieth-century writer,” “race man,” “prophet,” “witne...