Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Why Did the FBI Spy on James Baldwin?

Why Did the FBI Spy on James Baldwin?

A new book explores the lengthy FBI file on James Baldwin, which contains 1,884 pages of documents, collected from 1960 until the early 1970s. During that era of illegal surveillance of American writers, the FBI accumulated 276 pages on Richard Wright, 110 pages on Truman Capote, and just nine pages on Henry Miller. Why were they so interested in Baldwin?
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