Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin
Lecture and Book Signing

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
6:00 - 8:00 pm

Main Library
Centennial Hall
5 Washington Street
Newark, New Jersey

Free and open to the public!

Please RSVP by July 1.
973-733-7793 or rsvp@npl.org
(Please put Baldwin's Harlem in the email subject line.)

Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin combines biographical research with astute literary criticism, revealing Baldwin's association with Harlem on both metaphorical and realistic levels.

Author Herb Boyd is a journalist, activist, and professor of African and African American history at the College of New Rochelle and City College New York. He has published 18 books, including Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America, An Anthology, which earned a 1995 American Book Award for nonfiction. Among his popular books are Black Panthers for Beginners; Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It; Race and Resistance: African Americans in the Twenty-First Century; and Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson.