"In France With James Baldwin"

Brown is an accomplished novelist, non-fiction writer, and folklorist whose major works include Days Without Weather (1983), Coming Up Down Home (1993), and Dude, Where’s My Black Studies Department? (2007).

The Common Reader, Washington University’s online journal, and the Department of African & African American Studies invites you to a special lecture with James Baldwin protégé and senior lecturer at Stanford University Cecil Brown, who will speak on the late writer’s pivotal work in exile, his witness to Baldwin’s creative journey through If Beale Street Could Talk, and the future of Baldwin’s legacy in an America of fraught divisions.