Author: James Baldwin
Alternate names: Baldwin, James; James A. Baldwin; Robert Dudley; James [1924 - 1987] Baldwin; jAMES bALDWIN; James Baldwin PhD; James. Baldwin; James Boldwin; james baldwin; James Arthur Baldwin; James Baldwin, Alston Anderson, Owen Dodson, William Melvin Kelley, Langston Hughes, Ernest J. Gaines, Richard Wright, Ann Petry
Born: 2 August 1924
Died: 30 November 1987
Bio: James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.

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