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James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a writer and civil rights activist who is best known for his semi-autobiographical novels and plays that center on race, politics, and sexuality.
Nov 29, 2006 · From Go Tell It on the Mountain to The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985), James Baldwin created works of literary beauty and depth that will remain essential parts of the American canon.
Feb 28, 2024 · James Baldwin would have turned 100 on Aug. 2 this year. His final works were published almost 40 years ago, just two years before his death in 1987. Yet his writing is as imperative as ever.
Learn more about the life of James Baldwin as he traveled the world while remaining close to family and establishing enduring friendships.
A novelist and essayist of considerable renown, James Baldwin bore witness to the unhappy consequences of American racial strife. Baldwin’s writing career began in the last years of legislated segregation; his fame as a social observer grew in tandem with the civil rights movement as he mirrored…
Feb 2, 2021 · James Baldwin was one of the leading voices of the civil rights movement. The author was born in 1924 in Harlem, New York — right in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance that...
James Baldwin. Novelist, essayist, playwright, and activist James Baldwin, 1975. Nobody Knows My Name. Dust jacket for the 1961 Dial Press first edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name. (more)
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