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December 1, 1987 (63 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Leo
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James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin is an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and activist. Her essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore the complexities of racism, gender, and class in Western American society in the mid-twentieth century. Several of Baldwin's essays are of book length, including The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Devil Finds Work. An unfinished draft, Remember This House, has been developed and adapted for theaters as an Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro. One of her novels, If Beale Street Could Talk, was adapted into the 2018 Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed and produced by Barry Jenkins. Baldwin's novels, short stories, and plays fictionalize the underlying personal problems and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures.
BornAugust 2, 1924, New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedDecember 1, 1987, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Resting placeFerncliff Cemetery, Westchester County, New York
Occupationnovelist, playwright, activist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityUnited States of America
EducationDeWitt Clinton High School
GenreUrban fiction, African-American literature, Gay literature
Years active1947–1985

About James Baldwin

James Baldwin
James Baldwin

Novelist James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924 in New York City, New York, United States (He dies at the age of 63, on December 1, 1987).

Author of the twentieth century whose works deal with issues of race, class, and sexual orientation. Go Tell It on the Mountain, his most famous novel, was released in 1953.

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James Baldwin before becoming famous

James Baldwin was born in the Zodiac sign Leo (The Lion), and 1924 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rat (鼠).

He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and worked on the school newspaper with co-editor Richard Avedon. In his mid-teens, he dabbled in religion, becoming a Pentecostal preacher at the age of fourteen and then abandoning the faith three years later.

Achievement of James Baldwin

He was a key role in the American Civil Rights Movement, and he was featured on the cover of Time magazine in May 1963.

James Baldwin's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His mother, Emma Berdis Jones, and stepfather, David Baldwin, raised him. He fled to Paris in 1948 to come to grips with his homosexuality and to avoid prejudice towards gays and African-Americans in the United States.

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James Baldwin Collabed with

Movie Actor Marlon Brando, the famed actor, was a close friend of his.

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Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)

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James Baldwin Income & Net worth

James Baldwin's income mainly comes from the work that created his reputation: a novelist. Information about his net worth in 2024 is being updated as soon as possible by allfamous.org, you can contact to tell us Net Worth of the James Baldwin.

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