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This was especially apparent in his first and best-known novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, the story of a Harlem teenager’s struggles with a repressive father and with religious conversion. According to Roberts, Go Tell It on the Mountain “proved that James Baldwin had become a writer of enormous power and skill.
In the famous 1965 debate with William F. Buckley, Baldwin made several powerful references to Harlem, one of them being, “If you walk out of Harlem, ride out of Harlem, downtown, the world agrees what you see is much bigger, cleaner, whiter, richer, safer than where you are.”
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1924 –. 1987. Read poems by this poet. James Baldwin was born in Harlem on August 2, 1924. He was raised by his mother, Emma Berdis Jones, and his stepfather, David Baldwin. As a teenager, he worked as a preacher in a small revivalist church while attending DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
Jan 23, 2007 · James Arthur Baldwin, fiction writer, essayist, dramatist, and poet, was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York during the Harlem Renaissance. After graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx in 1942, he began his formal career as a writer.
To journey along the arc of James Baldwin’s life is to experience a large chunk of Harlem’s history from the 1920s to the 1990s, and except for the community’s Gilded Age in the 1880s and 1890s, his years in the neighborhood are perhaps the most interesting and instructive.
Feb 1, 2009 · Although Baldwin seemed a natural heir to the Harlem Renaissance—he was born right there, in 1924, and Countee Cullen was one of his schoolteachers—the bittersweet poetry of writers like...
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