Correspondence

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Title: Correspondence
Creator: Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Contributor: Garin-Painter, Mary
Published / Created: 1962-1964
Abstract: The Walter O. Evans Collection of James Baldwin is comprised of a typescript draft of Baldwin's Another Country (New York: Dial Pub., 1962) and correspondence sent from Baldwin to Mary Garin-Painter, David Adams Leeming, and Eugene Lerner dating from 1953 to 1987. In his letters Baldwin discusses his writing projects and personal life (ranging from his relationships to his experience living abroad in France and Turkey). Baldwin also reflects on his experience at the MacDowell Colony where he was in residence while working on his novel Giovanni's Room. The correspondence constitutes a window into Baldwin's creative process and life during this period.
Description: Purchased from Walter O. and Linda Evans on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund and the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2013.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Correspondence
Manuscripts
Typescripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): United States--Race relations
Subject (Name): Garin-Painter, Mary
Subject (Topic): African American authors--20th century--Archives
African American authors--France--Paris.
African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights--20th century.
American literature--France--Paris.
Americans--Turkey--Istanbul--Intellectual life.
Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Turkey--Istanbul.
Expatriate artists--France--Paris
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Citation: Walter O. Evans Collection of James Baldwin. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.