To escape racism in America, James Baldwin fled to Saint-Paul de Vence, France, in 1970, where he lived in self-imposed exile until his death in 1987.
This book focuses on this seventeen-year period of his life and literature.
Author Jules B.
Farber presents life with Jimmy through more than seventy interviews of personal reminisces with well-known literary figures, musicians, artists, and celebrities, such as Sidney Poitier, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Quincy Jones, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.