John A. Williams

Clifford's Blues

Bisexual Black pianist imprisoned in Nazi Germany reflects on love, music, and survival

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John A. Williams
John A. Williams

John A. Williams was a pioneering African American novelist who confronted American racism with moral urgency and literary craft. Night Song and The Man Who Cried I Am are among the most important Black American novels of the postwar period.

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