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Death Tombstone of James Baldwin and his mother Berdis at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, New York. On December 1, 1987, Baldwin died from stomach cancer in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. He was buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, near New York City.
Apr 24, 2024 · During his career he was the recipient of Guggenheim (1954) and Ford Foundation (1958) fellowships and the George Polk Award for journalism (1963), and he was accepted into the Legion of Honour (1986), France’s most prestigious order. He died at age 63 of stomach cancer while at his home in the south of France.
Aug 16, 2023 · Baldwin died on December 1, 1987, at his home in St. Paul de Vence, France. Never wanting to be a spokesperson or a leader, Baldwin saw his personal mission as bearing "witness to the truth."
Baldwin died at this home in St. Paul de Vence, France, on December 1, 1987, of stomach cancer at age 63. Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House was the subject of the critically acclaimed 2016 Raoul Peck film, I Am Not Your Negro.
Dec 1, 1987 · James Baldwin, whose passionate, intensely personal essays in the 1950's and 60's on racial discrimination in America helped break down the nation's color barrier, died of cancer last night...
Dec 2, 1987 · Dec. 2, 1987 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. PARIS — James Baldwin, a renowned writer who spent a lifetime in literature trying to explore his identity as a black and as an American, died...
Dec 2, 1987 · James Baldwin, whose passionate, intensely personal essays in the 1950's and 60's on racial discrimination in America made him an eloquent voice of the civil-rights movement, died of stomach...
Dec 2, 1987 · December 1, 1987 at 7:00 p.m. EST. James Baldwin, 63, the novelist, playwright, poet and essayist who wrote eloquently and angrily about racial injustice and the black experience in 20th...
Dec 1, 1987 · Dec. 1, 1987 12 AM PT. Times Wire Services. ST. PAUL DE VENCE, France — James Baldwin, whose first novel “Go Tell It on the Mountain” established him as a major American writer and helped...
Aug 2, 2016 · August 2, 2016. James Baldwin, whose cutting, unequivocal writing about race relations helped make America more equal than it was before, was born on this day in 1924, according to many...
