Barry Jenkins Wants You To Read James Baldwin

Barry Jenkins doesn't just love James Baldwin--he calls the 20th century literary lion his "personal school of life." But Baldwin's work was long out of reach for storytellers like him because the writer's family has been, since his death in 1987, reluctant to grant the rights to adapt his work.

Not so any longer.

Barry Jenkins doesn't just love James Baldwin--he calls the 20th century literary lion his "personal school of life." But Baldwin's work was long out of reach for storytellers like him because the writer's family has been, since his death in 1987, reluctant to grant the rights to adapt his work. Not so any longer.