Ellery Washingon / James Balwin´s Paris

James Baldwin

James Baldwin’s Paris

By ELLERY WASHINGTONJAN. 17, 2014

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Café de Flore, where Baldwin worked on his novel “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” Agnes Dherbeys for The New York Times

One bright afternoon in Paris, on the terrace of the cafe Deux Magots, in St.-Germain-des-Prés, I found myself engaged in an increasingly animated conversation about the writer James Baldwin and the notorious feud that broke out between him and his fellow African-American expatriate Richard Wright.