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From If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
From one of our greatest writers, James Baldwin's IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK is a profoundly moving novel about love in the face of injustice that is as socially resonant today as it was when it was first published more than thirty years ago.
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James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor.