# Ayana Mathis and Viet Thanh Nguyen: James Baldwin’s Centennial

James Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote some of the most influential American books of the 20th Century, including “Another Country,” “Giovanni’s Room” and “Notes of a Native Son.” Ayana Mathis (“The Unsettled”) and Viet Thanh Nguyen (“A Man of Two Faces”) discussed the influence of Baldwin’s work on writers of all stripes with Eric Deggans at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 1 h 13 min
- By: Deggans, Eric
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10232/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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