James Baldwin

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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Birthday: 02/08/1924
PlaceOfBirth: Harlem, New York, USA
Deathday: 01/12/1987
Gender: 2
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