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A Short Biography of James Baldwin

Author Name:

James Baldwin

Born As:

James Arthur Baldwin

Other Names:

James Arthur Baldwin

Born:

2 Aug 1924

Died:

1 Dec 1987




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Writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist                          
Selected Works:

Go Tell It on the Mountain - semi-autobiographical novel - 1953
The Amen Corner - play - 1954
Notes of a Native Son - 1955
Giovanni's Room - novel - 1956
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son - essays - 1961
Another Country - novel - 1962
A Talk to Teachers - essay - 1963
The Fire Next Time - essays - 1963
Blues for Mister Charlie - play - 1964
Going to Meet the Man - stories - 1965 -  dustjacket designed by David Battle.
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone - novel - 1968
No Name in the Street - essays - 1972
If Beale Street Could Talk - novel - 1974
The Devil Finds Work - essays - 1976
Just Above My Head - novel - 1979
Jimmy's Blues - poems - 1983
The Evidence of Things Not Seen - essays - 1985
The Price of the Ticket - essays - 1985
Harlem Quartet - novel - 1987

Together with others:

Nothing Personal - with Richard Avedon - photographer - 1964
A Rap on Race - with Margaret Mead - 1971
One day when I was lost - A. Haley - 1972
A Dialogue - with Nikki Giovanni - 1973
Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood - with Yoran Cazac, 1976.                                              
Mother Emma Berdis Jones. His mother married a preacher, David Baldwin, who adopted James when he was still young.