On James Baldwin: The FBI File. 2017. Edited by William J. Maxwell. Arcade Books. “Isn’t Baldwin a well-known pervert?” So wrote FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in a 1964 internal FBI memo, a single page in a file that extended … Continue reading “Baldwin’s FBI Blues”
Author: Bill V. Mullen
Bill V. Mullen is professor of American studies at Purdue University. He is author most recently of W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line (Pluto Press), and he is at work on a political biography of James Baldwin.
Bill V. Mullen is professor of American studies at Purdue University. He is author most recently of W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line (Pluto Press), and he is at work on a political biography of James Baldwin.