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Where did James Baldwin go to school?
Baldwin attended P.S. 24 on 128th Street, Frederick Douglass Junior High, DeWitt Clinton High School
Did James Baldwin go to college?
James Baldwin did not formally attend college.
Did James Baldwin further is education an any other ways?
When Baldwin was 15 years old, his high-school running buddy, Emile Capouya met Beauford Delaney, a painter. Capouya gave Baldwin Delaney's address and suggested paying him a visit.
How did Beauford Delaney influence James Baldwin?
Beauford Delaney became a mentor to Baldwin and under his influence Baldwin came to believe a black person could be an artist.
Did James Baldwin have any other influences besides Beauford Delaney?
Later support came from Richard Wright, whom Baldwin called the greatest black writer in the world.“
Did James Baldwin teach?
Baldwin, who taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts in the early 1980s.
Are there any other interesting aspects about the James Baldwin article?
Baldwin's first published work, a review of the writer Maxim Gorky, appeared in The Nation in 1947.
Did James Baldwin write anything else after his review in The Nation in 1947?
In 1953, Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, a semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman, was published.

Question: Did he preform in any plays?
Self-contained rewrite: Did James Baldwin preform in any plays?