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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. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels . [ 1 ]
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’ stepfather, David ...
Writer, poet and activist James Baldwin (1924-1987) was one of the leading literary voices of the civil rights movement. Through a powerful oeuvre of novels, plays and essays, he explored issues ...
Baldwin in 1969, Hyde Park, London James Baldwin (1924–1987) was born in and lived his entire childhood and adolescence in Harlem, New York.He expatriated and lived most of his adult life in France, though he traveled frequently and had extended stays in other countries (Switzerland and Turkey).
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.
“Go Tell It on the Mountain” is a coming-of-age novel and classic book by eloquent American activist and author James Baldwin (1924-1987). It’s loosely based on his childhood growing up in ...
James Baldwin. Calvin Baker (born 1972), novelist; James Baldwin (1924–1987), novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and activist; Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) Leslie Esdaile Banks (1959–2011) Amiri Baraka (1934–2014) Shauna Barbosa (born c. 1988), poet; Steven Barnes (born 1952) Lindon W. Barrett (1961–2008) Samuel Alfred Beadle (1857 ...
James Baldwin (1924–1987) was an American novelist, essayist and civil rights activist. James Baldwin may also refer to: Public officials.