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Active in the civil rights movement and open about his homosexuality, Baldwin was celebrated for his eloquent analyses of social unrest in his essays and for his daring portrayals of sexuality and interracial relationships in his fiction. By the time of his death in 1987, both his fiction and nonfiction works had achieved the status of modern classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJames Campbell knew James Baldwin for the last ten years of Baldwin's life. For \u003cem\u003eTalking at the Gates\u003c\/em\u003e, Campbell interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and professional associates and examined several hundred pages of correspondence. Campbell was the first biographer to obtain access to the large file that the FBI and other agencies had compiled on the writer. 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