James Baldwin and Britain

Baldwin referenced in a review of Six Characters in Search of an Author

Source: The Daily Mail

Mar 19 1987: 3

‘Bailey's comic bridge over the eternal mystery of 'us'’

Jack Tinker in his review of another play:

‘Only the previous night that mighty writer Mr JB had been explaining over dinner how no writer may fear the consequences of putting acquaintances undisguised into works of fiction: “Your perception of them is never their perception of themselves”, he assured us.