James Baldwin
Gender: Male
Birthday: 1924-08-02 - 1987-12-01
Place of Birth: Harlem, New York, USA
Biography
James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.
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Known For
1968The Dick Cavett Show
1963World in Action
2018Explained
2025The New Yorker at 100
2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2017I Am Not Your Negro
1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1981I Remember Harlem
Assignment America
1968SOUL!
2021Madonna: Madame X
1985The Statue of Liberty
2011Public Speaking
1962James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
2017The Madding Crowd
1963The Negro and the American Promise
1982I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1989