Another CountryPublished in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and sexuality. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, Another Country recounts the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and his friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths along the way.
AUTHOR INFORMATION
James Baldwin (1924–1987) was educated in New York. He is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, Another Country, and Blues for Mister Charlie. He has received many awards including the Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1986.
NARRATOR INFORMATION
Veteran actor and narrator Dion Graham appeared on HBO's The Wire and narrates The First 48 on A & E, as well as various projects for the BBC and PBS.