Visionary
In the centenary year of his birth, author James Baldwin has only gained in stature for the wisdom with which he wrote about being black and gay when it wasn’t easy being either.
Alain Mabanckou was born in Congo-Brazzaville in 1966. He is the author of Broken Glass, Memoirs of a Porcupine, and African Psycho, among others. He currently divides his time between Paris and California, where he teaches French literature at UCLA.