James Baldwin
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Baldwin in July 1982
James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
Baldwin's essays, such as the collection Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore racial, sexual, and class maters in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnamable tensions with personal identity, something taken for granted, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.
Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York City. He studied at DeWitt Clinton High School and at The New School. He was never married and had no children. Baldwin died on December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France from esophageal cancer, aged 63.[1][2]
References
- ↑ James Baldwin Biography, accessed December 2, 2010
- ↑ James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered, The New York Times, December 20, 1987
Other websites
- James Baldwin on IMDb
- Altman, Elias. "Watered Whiskey: James Baldwin's Uncollected Writings" April 13, 2011. The Nation.
- Jordan Elgrably (Spring 1984). "James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78". Paris Review.
- Gwin, Minrose. "Southernspaces.org" March 11, 2008. Southern Spaces
- James Baldwin Photographs and Papers Selected manuscripts, correspondence, and photographic portraits from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
- Comprehensive Resource of James Baldwin Information
- James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket distributed by California Newsreel
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