‘Writers in search of a National Identity’, Julian Moyhahan
Source: The Observer
‘Writers in Search of a National Identity’ by Julian Moynahan.
Article about US authors begins with a couple of very positive paragraphs about JB:
‘…I believe that just four books…published over the past four months give some indication of the direction that serious American fiction is taking and one of these, just one, Nobody Knows My Name by the negro writer James Baldwin sheds strong light on the complex fate of Americans in this part of what they used to call the American century.’