The man who cried I am

J. Williams

Generally recognized as one of the most important novels of the tumultuous 1960s, The man who cried I am, vividly evokes the harsh era of segregation that presaged the expatriation of African-American intellectuals. Through the eyes of journalist Max Reddick, and with penetrating fictional portraits of Richard Wright and James Baldwin, among other historical figures, Williams reveals the hope, courage, and bitter disappointment of the civil-rights era. Throughout the novel, Max opines on a multitude of subjects like: sexuality and interracial relationships, he works past some of his homophobia too.