Just Above My Head
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Explores how gospel singer Arthur Montana discovers his love for Jimmy and portrays how profoundly racial politics can shape the private business of love.
The best of his work ... stands comparison with any of its period to come out of the United States
This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers
If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one
Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers
James Baldwin
was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel,
Go Tell It on the Mountain
(1953), which evokes his experiences as a boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwin’s second novel,
Giovanni's Room
(1956) has become a landmark of gay literature and
Another Country
(1962) caused a literary sensation. His searing essay collections
Notes of a Native Son
(1955) and
Nobody Knows My Name
(1961) contain many of the works that made him an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin published several other collections of non-fiction, including
The Fire Next Time
(1963) and
No Name in the Street
(1972). His short stories are collected in
Going to Meet the Man
(1965). His later works include the novels
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
(1968),
If Beale Street Could Talk
(1974) and
Just Above My Head
(1979).
James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships: a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a
Partisan Review
Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He died in 1987 in France