More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a bestselling author. LeVar Burton launches book club with James Baldwin novelRead full article: LeVar Burton launches book club with James Baldwin novel LeVar Burton has found another way to share his love of reading. A price tag...
CHICAGO –Sixty years ago, on February 18th, 1965, Author James Baldwin and Pundit William F. Buckley debated each other on the topic “Is the American Dream at the Expense of the American Negro?” That event is recreated in Timeline Theatre’s (click for tix info) Debate: Baldwin vs. ...
That was the premise for the comedyChuck, where the aforementioned Chuck received a mail from a friend and got all the CIA and NSA intelligence in his brain before it was deleted, so he became an asset for both agencies, protected by Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and John (Adam Baldwin). It...
Baldwin and Buckley were almost exact contemporaries, and so they came of age – intellectually speaking – at the same time (the late 1940’s) and reached the height of their prominence at nearly the same moment (the mid-1960’s). Righ...
I have an ancestor who was a veteran of World War I.I am either a cousin to Propst descendants of Martin Luther (the Reformer) or possibly descended from him or from his brother Johannes "John" Luther. More research is needed to determine which is the case. Currently, this is ...
More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a bestselling author. LeVar Burton launches book club with James Baldwin novelRead full article: LeVar Burton launches book club with James Baldwin novel LeVar Burton has found another way to share his love of reading. A price tag...
More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a bestselling author. LeVar Burton launches book club with James Baldwin novelRead full article: LeVar Burton launches book club with James Baldwin novel LeVar Burton has found another way to share his love of reading. A price tag...
of his strict stepfather, with whom he had a fraught relationship. Although Baldwin abandoned preaching, that period of his life was important to his development as a writer. In an interview captured in thedocumentary filmThe Price of the Ticket(released posthumously in 1989), Baldwin said: “...
Other articles where Nobody Knows My Name is discussed: African American literature: James Baldwin: Subsequent volumes of essays, Nobody Knows My Name (1961) and The Fire Next Time (1963), underlined Baldwin’s fame as the most incisive and passionate es
s first novel and is considered his finest. Based on Baldwin’s experiences as a teenaged preacher in a smallrevivalistchurch, the novel describes two days and a long night in the life of the Grimes family, particularly 14-year-old John and his stepfather, Gabriel. It is a classic of...