James Baldwin
1924 – 1987 · United States · Literature
The Fire Next Time; the most precise prose on American race ever written.
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Continuity of ideas
Who shaped James Baldwin, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968 · Peace, Philosophy
Their argument over patience and rage defined the movement's moral vocabulary.
Passed the work to2
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1977 · Literature
The essayist-as-witness is the public role Baldwin defined.
- Toni Morrison
1931 – 2019 · Literature
Morrison edited and eulogised Baldwin; his moral prose is in her essays.
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