James Baldwin Richard Avedon Magpie Magazine De Witt Clinton High School Bronx

  

3 Issues: June 1939, Vol. 2; The Vagabond Issue Winter 1941, Vol.

1; Winter (James Baldwin; Richard Avedon Issue) Winter 1942, Vol. JAMES BALDWIN RICHARD AVEDON MAGPIE MAGAZINE DE WITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL BRONX.

Up For Sale Today is. Art--Literature by the Students of De Witt Clinton High School. 1; Star Spangled Winter Issue (James Baldwin Issue).

Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelfwear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. De Witt Clinton High School was attended by many extraordinarily talented people, among them Robert Blackburn, who was one of the art editors of its school magazine, The Magpie.

James Baldwin was a graduate of De Witt Clinton, and his first efforts appeared in the Magpie. Wrappers chipped and worn to the extremities. James Baldwin was a graduate of De Witt Clinton, and his first efforts appeared in the Magpie (1 play; 2 poems) as does Richard Avedon (Assitant editor in this issue; 3 poems).

Star-Spangled Issue Winter 1942: Vol. Wrappers lightly worn to the extremities. James Baldwin was a graduate of De Witt Clinton, and his first efforts appeared in the Magpie (Editor in this issue; 1 short story; 4 poems). James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions. Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976). Baldwin's novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration not only of black people, but also of gay and bisexual men, while depicting some internalized obstacles to such individuals' quests for acceptance.

Such dynamics are prominent in Baldwin's second novel, Giovanni's Room, written in 1956, well before the gay liberation movement. 24 on 128th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues in Harlem, where he wrote the school song, which was used until the school closed down.

His middle school years were spent at Frederick Douglass Junior High where he was influenced by poet Countee Cullen, a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance, and was encouraged by his math teacher to serve as editor of the school newspaper, The Douglass Pilot. He then went on to DeWitt Clinton High School, in the Bronx's Bedford Park section. There, along with Richard Avedon, Baldwin worked on the school magazine as literary editor but disliked school because of the constant racial slurs. OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices.

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The item "JAMES BALDWIN RICHARD AVEDON MAGPIE MAGAZINE DE WITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL BRONX" is in sale since Saturday, February 25, 2017. This item is in the category "Books\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "lastexitbooks" and is located in Charlottesville, Virginia. This item can be shipped worldwide.

1. Subject: Literature & Fiction
2. Topic: Literature; James Baldwin; Richard Avedon
3. Original/Facsimile: Original
4. Binding: Softcover, Wraps
5. Special Attributes: 1st Edition
6. Publisher: De Witt Clinton High School
7. Place of Publication: Bronx, NY
8. Author: James Baldwin; Richard Avedon
9. Region: North America
10. Language: English
11. Country/Region of Manufacture: United States