James Campbell

James Campbell's books include Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and Others on the Left Bank, and Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin, both recently reissued.

Looking Backward: James Campbell Reviews His Own 1982 ‘Nation’ Essay on Leaving Scotland

Looking Backward: James Campbell Reviews His Own 1982 ‘Nation’ Essay on Leaving Scotland Looking Backward: James Campbell Reviews His Own 1982 ‘Nation’ Essay on Leaving Scotland

“How can I have seemed so settled in my opinions? So smug in my attitudes?”

Sep 24, 2014 / Books & the Arts / James Campbell and Back Issues

Black American in Paris Black American in Paris

In the spring of 1960, the year of his death, the novelist Richard Wright wrote from Paris to his friend and Dutch translator Margrit de Sablonière:

Sep 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / James Campbell

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