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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4512
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 10:34 am: | |
Schakspir is right:
Though most of the things that happened to him he brought on himself (which he will freely admit) the man went through hell. He suffered from the delusion that people really wanted to hear the truth about what he thought and felt (it was the great time of Realism, remember) and was constantly stunned when he got reactions such as yours--or at least he said so--leading me to believe that he was self destructive and tortured and conflicted.
He had no respect for the stuff that made him money--the Harlem Detective series--and agonized that the books he had poured his heart and soul into--If He Hollers Let Him Go and Lonely Crusade, were flops.
He was as crazed and conflicted as James Baldwin and never got the healing that Baldwin found in acceptance as a serious writer and a voice for his people--by the time the Civil Rights movement came around he was through.
Have you ever read his semi autobiographical book Yesterday Will Make You Cry, or the short story One Red Hell? |