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James Baldwin, an Original

By: Gloria Steinem
Narrated by: Marianne Fraulo
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Summary

An interviewer once asked James Baldwin what he would say if a man from Mars suddenly appeared and asked, "What are you?" "At the time I left the country in 1948," he replied, "I would have answered your man from Mars by saying 'I am a writer'...Now I think I'd say to him: 'I am a writer with a lot of work to do and wondering if I can do it!'"

A portrait of the singular author at 40, Gloria Steinem's James Baldwin, an Original finds Baldwin between rehearsals for his Broadway play, Blues for Mister Charlie, a tragedy loosely based on the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi, as he attempts to get his vision from page to stage uncompromised - and wrestles with his growing fame as a writer and activist. James Baldwin, an Original was originally published in Vogue, July 1964.

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©2016 Gloria Steinem (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
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Insightful and fresh… motivates me to be me and act on the things i care about always move in Love and allow it to Inform me. There’s a reason why Baldwin was who he is.

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packs a punch

more like yt video with just sound but thats not a complaint at all. very good biography and start of a rabbit hole

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