Person
James Baldwin
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- August 2, 1924 · 63 years
- Death
- December 1, 1987
- Origin
- Harlem, New York, USA
Professional Trajectory
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.
