James Campbell is the author of Exiled in Paris and This Is the Beat Generation. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and was for many years an editor and columnist at the Times Literary Supplement in London.
A life-sized portrait in very broad strokes. . . . . A lively book that is immensely readable, serious, careful, and informed. -- Boston Sunday Globe A marvelously illuminating literary biography . . . . [and] an affectionate yet critical portrait. -- Publishers Weekly Campbell has met the challenge and written a first-rate work. The best biography so far. . . . He deals not only with the facts of his subject's life but also with his works. -- Chicago Tribune Frank and affectionate. . . . Approaching Baldwin without reverence, though not quite irreverently, Campbell brings a mixture of intellectual integrity and something like truculence to the biographer's task. -- Times Literary Supplement James Campbell has ably blended both scholarship and personal recollection. -- New York Times Book Review Must reading for anyone interested in James Baldwin. -- Washington Post Book World