James Baldwin
2 August 1924 – 1 December 1987
James Baldwin was an American writer whose novels and essays examined race, sexuality and identity in the United States. Raised in Harlem, he spent much of his adult life in France and wrote Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room and The Fire Next Time, becoming a prominent literary voice during the civil rights era.
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Life events
Born to Emma Berdis Jones; he was raised by his stepfather, a preacher.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWorked on the school magazine in the Bronx alongside future photographer Richard Avedon.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLeft the United States for France, where he wrote much of his early work.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis semi-autobiographical first novel, set in a Harlem church.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA collection of essays on race and American life.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA novel centred on an American man's relationship with an Italian bartender in Paris.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTwo essays on race in America that became a bestseller during the civil rights movement.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe televised debate addressed whether the American dream had come at the expense of African Americans.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMade his home in the southern French village for the rest of his life.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied of stomach cancer at his home at the age of 63.
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