Editing James Baldwin (section)

==== Literary career ====
Baldwin's first published work, a review of the writer [[Maxim Gorky]], appeared in ''[[The Nation]]'' in 1947.<ref name="gorki">{{cite magazine |last=Baldwin |first=James |date=April 12, 1947 |title=Maxim Gorki as Artist |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/maxim-gorki-artist/ |magazine=The Nation |access-date=August 20, 2016}}</ref><ref name="thenation">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781560250012/page/261 |title=The Nation: 1865–1990 |date=1990 |publisher=[[Thunder's Mouth Press]] |isbn=978-1560250012 |editor-last=vanden Heuvel |editor-first=Katrina |editor-link=Katrina vanden Heuvel |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781560250012/page/261 261]}}</ref> He continued to publish there at various times in his career and was serving on its editorial board at the time of his death in 1987.<ref name="thenation" />[[File:Panneau Histoire de Paris, café de Flore, 172 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris 6e.jpg|left|thumb|[[Café de Flore]], [[Boulevard Saint-Germain]], [[Paris]], May 2019. In the large upstairs heated room ({{small|''SALLE AU 1<sup>er</sup> – CLIMATISÉE''}}) in 1952 Baldwin worked on his first novel ''[[Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)|Go Tell It on the Mountain]]'' (1953).]]