William J Maxwell
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The FBI's secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer.
Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art and black power. Baldwin's 1,884-page FBI file, covering the period from 1958 to 1974, was the largest compiled on any African American artist of the Civil Rights era. This collection of once-secret documents, never...
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"Winner of a 2016 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015" "A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of 2015" "Shortlisted for the 2016 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association" William J. Maxwell is professor of English and African and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His F.B. Eyes Digital Archive presents copies of 51 of the FBI files discussed in this...