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Who: James Arthur Baldwin
What: American novelist and essayist
When: Born August 2, 1924; died December 1, 1987
Where: Born in Harlem; died in France, where he spent the last 15 years of his life
Work I’ve read:
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Fire Next Time
If Beale Street Could Talk
Favorite words:
For more:
- Read Baldwin’s 1984 interview with the Paris Review
- Read Baldwin’s 1968 essay “Letter from a Region in My Mind”
- Watch an interview with Baldwin from 1963 in which he discusses civil rights in America
- Tim Carmody explains why James Baldwin is this century’s essential voice
- Slate discusses how If Beale Street Could Talk flopped upon its 1974 release
Are you a Baldwin fan? If so, what’s your favorite of his books?
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