In the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, Bill
V. Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great
African-American writer who changed the face of Western politics and
culture.
As a lifelong
anti-imperialist, black queer advocate, and feminist, Baldwin
(1924-1987) was a passionate chronicler of the rise of the Civil
Rights Movement, the U.S. war against Vietnam, Palestinian liberation
struggle, and the rise of LGBTQ rights.
Mullen explores how
Baldwin's life and work channel the long history of African-American
freedom struggles, and explains how Baldwin both predicted and has
become a symbol of the global Black Lives Matter movement.