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An interviewer once asked James Baldwin what he would say if a man from Mars out of the blue made an appearance and asked, "What are you?" "At that time I left the united states in 1948," he replied, "I would have responded your man from Mars by saying 'I am a article writer'...Now I think I'd say to him: 'I am a article writer with a lot of work to do and wanting to know if I can do it!'" A family portrait of the singular author at 40, Gloria Steinem's James Baldwin, an Original detects Baldwin between rehearsals for his Broadway play, Blues for Mister Charlie, a tragedy loosely based on the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi, as he tries to get his perspective from web page to stage uncompromised - and wrestles along with his growing popularity as a article writer and activist. James Baldwin, an Original was actually published in Vogue, July 1964. Cover design by Adil Dara.
