James Baldwin's Home in France Should be a Black Artist's Mecca. Instead, It's an Apartment Complex

For lovers of Black literature, James Baldwin was one of the greatest. And while he was born in Harlem and influenced by the Civil Rights Movement, he produced some of his best work from the south of France, where he lived for nearly 20 years until his death in 1987. In search of an escape from the racism and homophobia he experienced in the United States, it was there that he finished his 1953 novel “Go Tell it on the Mountain” and his 1955 collection of essays “Notes of a Native Son.” It was w

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