James Baldwin
American writer and civil rights activist (1924 to 1987); wrote The Fire Next Time.
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- James Baldwin was an American writer and civil rights activist, born in Harlem in 1924.
- Baldwin wrote essays, novels, plays and poems.
- Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time made Baldwin a leading voice of the civil rights movement.
- Baldwin lived in Saint-Paul-de-Vence in France from 1970 and died there in 1987.
Key facts
- Born
- 2 August 1924, Harlem Hospital, New York City1
- Died
- 1 December 1987, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France1
- Novels
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953); Giovanni's Room (1956); If Beale Street Could Talk (1974); Just Above My Head (1979)1
- Essays
- Notes of a Native Son (1955); The Fire Next Time (1963)1
- Debate
- With William F. Buckley, 19651
- Adaptations
- I Am Not Your Negro (2016), from the unfinished Remember This House; If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)1
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