- He was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic
| Real name: | James Arthur Baldwin | | Born: | 02 August 1924 Comment | | When did James Baldwin die? / Died | 01 December 1987 | | How many years did James Baldwin live? / Lived | 63 years | | Where was James Baldwin born? | New York City, New York, US | | Where did James Baldwin die? / Deathplace | Saint Paul de Vence, France | | Nicknames: | Jimmy | | Zodiac sign: | Leo |
James Baldwin Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is James Baldwin worth? | Under review
| | Nationality: | American | | Hair color: | Black | | Eyes color: | Brown |
Who was James Baldwin? / Facts
- His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), 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
- Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976)
- Baldwin's novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration not only of blacks, but also of gay and bisexual men, while depicting some internalized obstacles to such individuals' quests for acceptance
- Such dynamics are prominent in Baldwin's second novel, Giovanni's Room, written in 1956 well before gay rights were widely espoused in America
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Quotes
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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