One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

First Edition of James Baldwin's One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X; Inscribed by Him

One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

BALDWIN, James.

Item Number: 115993

New York: The Dial Press, 1973.

First edition of this “work energetically and demotically written” (The New Statesman). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Kathleen Peace James Baldwin.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Korn. Woodcuts by Lynn Braswell.

Based on Alex Haley’s bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s great masters of letters. Son of a Baptist minister; New York City hustler; honor student; convicted criminal; powerful minister in the Nation of Islam; father and husband: Malcolm X transformed himself, time and again, in order to become one of the most feared, loved, and undeniably charismatic leaders of twentieth-century America. No one better represents the tumultuous times of his generation, and there is no one better to capture him and his milieu than James Baldwin. With spare, elegant, yet forceful dialogue and fresh, precise camera directions, Baldwin breathes cinematic life into this controversial and important figure, offering a new look at a man who changed himself in order to change the country. "Sharp.... Precise....here is no questioning the depth and sincerity of Baldwin's admiration for Malcolm X" (The Times Literary Supplement).

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