The New York Times Book Review, “If Beale Street Could Talk”.The Nation, “The Black Feminist Roots of James Baldwin’s ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’”.Readings that address Baldwin’s relationship to women Paul de Vence were Yvonne Roux and her daughters, Hélène and Pitou he was close with the actor Simone Signoret and Jeanne Faure, from whom he first rented and then bought his house. As Joyce Carol Oates writes in its review, “Tish’s voice comes to seem absolutely natural and we learn to know her from the inside out.” In his last novel, Just Above My Head (1979), women are central to the narrative, while his unpublished play, The Welcome Table (1987) portrays many of his friends and even himself through female characters. His novel If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) is narrated by a nineteen-year-old Tish Rivers who is pregnant. Black women, especially the “sisters,” as he called Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde, Eleanor Traylor, Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, Florence Ladd, Josephine Baker or Nina Simone, were his role models and fashion icons whom he strived to imitate in his personal style. While popular accounts often neglect Baldwin’s relationships with women, scholars and biographers have shown that he was always deeply enamored of women and counted them among his closest family, friends, and most important influences.
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