Ten million euros. This is the amount required to purchase and restore African-American writer James Baldwin’s country house, which is currently threatened by a real estate project. Luckily, a “literary activist” in Saint-Paul-de-Vence is refusing to give up. Located halfway between Nice and Antibes, the house where James Baldwin spent the last 17 years of his life has seen better...

The New York Times

The fate of the Provence house where African-American writer James Baldwin spent the last 17 years of his life is once again questioned, as the property is threatened by a luxury real estate development. Read more in The New York Times.