James Baldwin Manuscript HoldingsBy Nancy KuhlWriter James Baldwin (1924-1987) is counted among the most important and influential African American writers of the twentieth century. Call Number: JWJ MSS MISC GROUP 4 F-1[Malcolm X]1 item ([1], 146 p.) ; 28 cm. Call Number: JWJ MSS MISC GROUP 4 F-3Digital Library: typescript"The Negro in Paris"1 item ([8] leaves) ; 25 cm. The letter includes a clipping of an article on James Baldwin from the Herald Tribune Book Review (1953 May 31). Correspondence includes one typescript letter, signed, from Baldwin to Wilson, and one typescript carbon letter from Wilson to Baldwin.