James Baldwin and Britain

Baldwin mentioned in a lengthy review of Alex Hayley’s The Biography of Malcolm X

Source: Tribune

Clancy Sigal, ‘Leader and devil martyr’, May 27, 1966, Tribune, Volume 30, Issue 21. Retrieved from

Lengthy review of Alex Hayley’s The Biography of Malcolm X, mention’s JB briefly in the penultimate paragraph of the review: ‘The book he [Malcolm X] narrated to Alex Haley is one of the best to come out of America in recent years. It is the only book, aside from the work of Richard Wright and E. Franklyn Frazier’s The Black Bourgeoise, which — and this includes James Baldwin’s — gives “the picture”’.

Obit of Clancy Sigal: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/25/clancy-sigal-obituary