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The Day I Broke Into James Baldwin’s House On The French Riviera

PEOPLE Posted: August 19, 2014 7:30 am

“I had been told that it was derelict and vacant; that after Baldwin’s death in 1987 there had been legal disputes about who in fact owned the eighteenth-century Provençal building (Baldwin thought he did). The rusty padlock on the austere gates and the broken buzzer confirmed that the house was unoccupied. I glanced furtively around to check that no one was watching and prepared to scale the wall.”

PEOPLE Published: 07.30.14

Read the story in The Times Literary Supplement (UK) Published: 07.30.14

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