James Baldwin
Birth date
August 2, 1924
Death date
December 1, 1987
Place of birth
Harlem, New York, USA
Profession
Acting
Age
63 years
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.
