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GIOVANNI'S ROOM

Giovanni’s Room
James Baldwin.
New York: Dial Press, 1956. First edition.
Rare Book and Special Collections Division
Library of Congress (92) Digital ID #mc0092

Giovanni's Room

In the summer of 1954, James Baldwin (1924–1987) was at The MacDowell Colony with his long-time friend, writer and editor Sol Stein.  Stein convinced Baldwin to publish Notes of a Native Son, which Baldwin was working on that summer.  He was also writing a novel, Giovanni’s Room, the story of a young man coming to terms with his sexual identity.  Critics praised Baldwin for treating the provocative subject with "unusual candor and yet with such dignity and intensity."

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