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From the Mountain Top
Kenan, Randall | May 2, 1994 issue

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This article focuses on the book "James Baldwin: A Biography," written by David Leeming. This new biography, serves as an important addition to the life of this homegrown American prophet, a book most important for its heretofore undisclosed facts and insights into a turbulent yet instructive life and mind. This biography remains faithful to this well-known epic story, recounting the hand-to-mouth days of a Harlem tenement and writer James Baldwin's public school education. This book is neither an exhaustive archival biography of the likes of writer Joseph Blotner's massive two-volume work on William Faulkner.

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JAMES Baldwin (Book); BIOGRAPHY; BOOKS; LEEMING, David; PUBLIC schools; EDUCATION
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