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Baldwin, Styron, and Me Spawn eerie brilliance' Guardian ‘Evokes theAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship. In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styrons guest house. The two wrote during the day, then spent evenings confiding in each other and talking about race in America. During one of those conversations, Baldwin is said to have convinced his friend to write, in first person, the story of the 1831 slave