Peter Tatchell, ‘Gay, Gifted and Black’, August 5th, 1994, Vo. 58, Issue 31/32, p. 8.

Peter Tatchell review of David Leeming’s biography of Baldwin: ‘For all the strengths of this biography, and there are many, it is long on factual detail and short on analysis and insight. There is little probing of Baldwin’s motives and emotions, and not enough reflection about the interplay between his turbulent personal life and his writing and politics. Perhaps those things must remain the subject of a further book. I hope so.’