James Baldwin's Most Underappreciated Talent
Briefly

His correspondence was 'actually the form where his light shone brightest,' Newkirk argues.
People who had never before written to him felt 'a certain familiarity'; Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, 'Dear James: Please excuse me for taking the p[r]erogative of addressing you by your first name, but I feel just that close to you.'
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