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James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African-American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.
Birth and family. Baldwin, born James Arthur Baldwin on Aug. 2, 1924, at Harlem Hospital, was the eldest of nine children. His mother, Emma Berdis Jones, raised him with her husband and James ...
On August 2, 1974, at his villa in St. Paul-de-Vence, Baldwin celebrated his fiftieth birthday with friends and family. Thirteen days later, Trevor was born in New York.
Nall took care of James Baldwin on his deathbed. Nall became friends with Baldwin in the early 1970s because Baldwin would buy him drinks at the Café de Flore . Nall recalled talking to Baldwin about racism in Alabama with the racially conscious author.
Blues for Mister Charlie is James Baldwin's second play, a social commentary drama in three acts. It was first produced and published in 1964. [1] The play is dedicated to the memory of Medgar Evers, his widow and children, and to the memory of the dead children of Birmingham."
Alec Baldwin is wishing his wife Hilaria Baldwin a happy birthday. On Tuesday, Jan. 7, Alec, 66, shared a photo of his wife of more than 12 years posing at what appeared to be a photoshoot to ...
Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood is a 1976 children's novel written by James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac. Plot introduction ... Mrs Lee, Mr Man's wife. She has ...
James Baldwin was born in 1924 in Harlem to an unwed mother who had left Maryland for New York and never knew his biological father. Several years later, his mother married a much older laborer and Baptist preacher from Louisiana who had come north in 1919.