James Baldwin : Living in FireIn the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, Bill V. Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great African American writer who changed the face of Western politics and culture. As a lifelong anti imperialist, black queer advocate, and feminist, Baldwin (1924 1987) was a passionate chronicler of the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, the U. S. war against Vietnam, Palestinian liberation struggle, and the rise of LGBTQ