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· American · 1943–2024

Nikki Giovanni

American poet who taped a two-part televised conversation with James Baldwin in London in 1971, published as A Dialogue.

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Lived
1943–2024
Born
1943
Died
2024
Nationality
American
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Collaborated with · 1971–1973

The conversation they taped in London on 4 November 1971 for the television program Soul! became a book: J. B. Lippincott published the full transcript as A Dialogue in 1973, with a foreword by Ida Lewis and an afterword by Orde M. Coombs.

— Soul!; 53; Conversation Between Giovanni and Baldwin. Part 1 (1971); A Dialogue

Met · 1971

In November 1971 the two taped a two-part conversation in London for the WNET program Soul! — Baldwin was forty-seven, Giovanni twenty-eight. The exchange was published as the book A Dialogue in 1973.

— Soul!; 53; Conversation Between Giovanni and Baldwin. Part 1 (1971)

Books by Nikki Giovanni

Cover of A Dialogue by James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni

A Dialogue

James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni1973

Essays & criticism

James Baldwin was forty-seven, Nikki Giovanni twenty-eight. A London television studio, one evening in November 1971, and neither of them willing to let the other off easily.

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Collaborated with · 1971–1973

James Baldwin

The conversation they taped in London on 4 November 1971 for the television program Soul! became a book: J. B. Lippincott published the full transcript as A Dialogue in 1973, with a foreword by Ida Lewis and an afterword by Orde M. Coombs.

— Soul!; 53; Conversation Between Giovanni and Baldwin. Part 1 (1971); A Dialogue

Met · 1971

James Baldwin

In November 1971 the two taped a two-part conversation in London for the WNET program Soul! — Baldwin was forty-seven, Giovanni twenty-eight. The exchange was published as the book A Dialogue in 1973.

— Soul!; 53; Conversation Between Giovanni and Baldwin. Part 1 (1971)