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Douglas Field

Douglas Field
Douglas Field is a writer and academic who teaches American literature at the University of Manchester. He has published two books on James Baldwin, the most recent of which is All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin (2015). His work has been published in Beat Scene, the Big Issue, the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement, where he has been a regular contributor for twenty years. He is a founding editor of James Baldwin Review.


Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

Douglas Field Considers the Paternal Bond of an American Literary Icon in Relation to His Own
November 20, 2024  By Douglas Field
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