James Baldwin

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James Baldwin was a prominent 20th-century American writer and essayist whose works powerfully explored race, sexuality, and identity in the United States.


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instanceOf civil rights activist
essayist
human
novelist
playwright
writer
awardReceived Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting
causeOfDeath stomach cancer
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1924-08-02
dateOfDeath 1987-12-01
educatedAt DeWitt Clinton High School
ethnicGroup African American
familyName Baldwin
fieldOfWork American society and politics
race relations in the United States
sexuality and identity
fullName James Arthur Baldwin
genre drama
essay
fiction
social criticism
givenName James
influenced Barry Jenkins
Jesmyn Ward
Marlon James
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Toni Morrison
influencedBy Fyodor Dostoevsky
Henry James
Richard Wright
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Civil rights movement
Harlem Renaissance influence
notableWork Another Country
Blues for Mister Charlie
Giovanni's Room
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Going to Meet the Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
No Name in the Street
Nobody Knows My Name
Notes of a Native Son
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
The Amen Corner
The Devil Finds Work
The Fire Next Time
occupation essayist
novelist
playwright
social critic
placeOfBirth Harlem, New York City, New York, United States
placeOfDeath Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France
positionHeld youth minister at Fireside Pentecostal Church, Harlem
religion Christianity (former Pentecostal preacher)
residence Harlem, New York City, New York, United States
Paris, France
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
sexualOrientation gay
subjectOf I Am Not Your Negro


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