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• Author/Creator:Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
  
• Title:James Baldwin drafts for Playboy, 1962-1985 (bulk 1962-1966).
  
• Physical Description:0.21 linear feet (1 box)
  
• Links:View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: JWJ MSS 75
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:James Baldwin (1924-1987) was an American author and activist in the American civil rights movement.
  
• Summary:"The Uses of the Blues," 1964, holograph draft fragment, annotated typescript, and proof, and "The Man Child," 1966, proof, both published in Playboy. Accompanied by photographs of Baldwin by Walter Daran (one of which was published in 1964) and Jill Krementz (published in 1985) for Playboy. Other manuscript materials are a printed leaflet for the "National Day of Mourning for the Children of Birmingham" (1963) in which Baldwin participated as well as a transcription and clipping of an abridged version (published in Isis) of Baldwin's speech at Oxford University for the joint meeting of JACARI (a student-run university charity) and the student union in 1965.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:James Baldwin Drafts for Playboy. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
  Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)
  African American authors--20th century--Archives.
  Authors, American--20th century--Archives.
  
• Genre/Form:Photographs.
  
• Also listed under:Krementz, Jill.
  Daran, Walter.