James Baldwin

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civil rights activist essayist human novelist playwright writer

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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Label	Occurrences
James Baldwin canonical	130
James Baldwin bibliography	2
James Arthur Baldwin	1
James Baldwin’s life	1

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instanceOf	civil rights activist ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ writer ⓘ
awardReceived	Anisfield-Wolf Book Award ⓘ George Polk Award ⓘ surface form: 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	Black Americans ⓘ surface form: African American
familyName	Baldwin ⓘ
fieldOfWork	American society and politics ⓘ race relations in the United States ⓘ sexuality and identity ⓘ
fullName	James Baldwin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 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	American civil rights movement ⓘ surface form: 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 neighborhood of Manhattan ⓘ surface form: 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 neighborhood of Manhattan ⓘ surface form: Harlem, New York City, New York, United States Paris ⓘ surface form: Paris, France Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France ⓘ surface form: Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
sexualOrientation	gay ⓘ
subjectOf	I Am Not Your Negro ⓘ

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Alexander Chee → influencedBy → James Baldwin ⓘ