"After the death of his stepfather, he returned to New York where he settled in Greenwich Village, and was determined to concentrate on his writing" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). ... "All thought flows, all is grace, because Baldwin is writing solely from himself, from an inner necessity, which generates a variety of approaches and an affluence of themes and variations" (Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 2, pg. 31). ... The 1948 trip to France marked the beginning of his career as an expatriate writer, and while his writing often returned to American subjects, he was based abroad f...

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