... his life. His final work, The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985) is based on the series of child murders that occurred in Atlanta in 1979-80. Three fellow writers, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Morrison, presented tributes to him while gathered for his funeral in New York City at the Cathedral of St. John the Devine ... . Angelou spoke of their personal relationship in which "brothers are hard to come by and are as necessary as air and as precious as love." James Baldwin knew that "black women ... ...

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