The Works of James Baldwin We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only forces that can change it. James Baldwin was born in Harlem on August 2, 1924. ... "James Baldwin's most valuable quality as a writer is authenticity" (Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 2, pg. 31). ... Baldwin finished his long-awaited first book, Go Tell It On The Mountain, during a stay in his companion's Swiss hometown, and published it in 1953. ... Published in 1968, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, is a bitterly incisive account of Amer...

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