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Born:
August 2, 1924
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December 1, 1987 (aged 63)
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“Another Country”
“Blues for Mister Charlie”
“Giovanni’s Room”
“Go Tell It on the Mountain”
“Going to Meet the Man”
“If Beale Street Could Talk”
“Just Above My Head”
“Nobody Knows My Name”
“Notes of a Native Son”
“Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone”
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James Baldwin wrote eloquently, thoughtfully, and passionately on the subject of race in America in novels, essays, and plays. He is perhaps best known for his books of essays, in particular Notes of a Native Son (1955), Nobody Knows My Name (1961), and The Fire Next Time (1963).
James Baldwin grew up in New York City ’s Harlem neighbourhood in an atmosphere of poverty and strict religious observance. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx in 1942 but was otherwise self-taught.
James Baldwin’s novels included Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), Giovanni’s Room (1956), Another Country (1962), and If Beale Street Could Talk (1974; film 2018). He wrote the plays The Amen Corner (1955) and Blues for Mister Charlie (1964).
James Baldwin lived in New York City until 1948, when he moved to Paris . He returned to the United States in 1957, and from 1969 he lived alternately in the south of France and in New York and New England in the U.S.
James Baldwin , in full James Arthur Baldwin , (born August 2, 1924, New York , New York—died December 1, 1987, Saint-Paul, France), American essayist, novelist, and playwright whose eloquence and passion on the subject of race in America made him an important voice, particularly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in the United States and, later, through much of western Europe.
The eldest of nine children, he grew up in poverty in the Black ghetto of Harlem in New York City . From age 14 to 16 he was active during out-of-school hours as a preacher in a small revivalist church, a period he wrote about in his semiautobiographical first and finest novel , Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), and in his play about a woman evangelist, The Amen Corner (performed in New York City, 1965).
After graduation from high school , he began a restless period of ill-paid jobs, self-study, and literary apprenticeship in Greenwich Village , the bohemian quarter of New York City. He left in 1948 for Paris, where he lived for the next eight years. (In later years, from 1969, he became a self-styled “transatlantic commuter,” living alternatively in the south of France and in New York and New England.) His second novel, Giovanni’s Room (1956), deals with the white world and concerns an American in Paris torn between his love for a man and his love for a woman. Between the two novels came a collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son (1955).
In 1957 he returned to the United States and became an active participant in the civil rights struggle that swept the nation. His book of essays, Nobody Knows My Name (1961), explores Black-white relations in the United States. This theme also was central to his novel Another Country (1962), which examines sexual as well as racial issues.
The New Yorker magazine gave over almost all of its November 17, 1962, issue to a long article by Baldwin on the Black Muslim separatist movement and other aspects of the civil rights struggle. The article became a best seller in book form as The Fire Next Time (1963). His bitter play about racist oppression, Blues for Mister Charlie (“Mister Charlie” being a Black term for a white man), played on Broadway to mixed reviews in 1964.
Though Baldwin continued to write until his death—publishing works including Going to Meet the Man (1965), a collection of short stories; the novels Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone (1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974), and Just Above My Head (1979); and The Price of the Ticket (1985), a collection of autobiographical writings—none of his later works achieved the popular and critical success of his early work.
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James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for I Am Not Your Negro (2016), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) and American Playhouse (1980). He died on December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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2016
I Am Not Your Negro
(Documentary) (writings)
1998
Where the Heart Is
(novel "If Beale Street Could Talk")
1985
Go Tell It on the Mountain
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1969
Blues für Mister Charlie
(TV Movie) (play)
- Eulogy
(1963)
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1962
Un étranger dans le village
(TV Movie documentary) (essay "A Stranger in the Village", 1953)
1979
City Edition
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2000
Bamboozled
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The French Dispatch
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2018
If Beale Street Could Talk
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- Millennial Gay
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- Set Phasers to Ho
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IMPACT-Dick Gregory
(Documentary) ( completed )
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1985
The Statue of Liberty
(Documentary)
Self - Writer
1982
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
(Documentary)
1975
Assignment America
(TV Series)
Self
1970
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
(Documentary short)
Self
1968
Baldwin's Nigger
(Documentary)
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- Avec James Baldwin
(1967)
... Self - écrivain
- Malcolm X
(1965)
... Self - Writer
1965
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
(TV Movie documentary)
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1964
Take This Hammer
(TV Movie documentary)
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1963
Champ libre
(TV Series documentary)
Self - écrivain (1963)
1962
Un étranger dans le village
(TV Movie documentary)
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2021
We Are Our History
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2021
The Final Genocide
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- Freedom Songs
(2020)
... Self - Writer & Activist
2020
I Ran From It and Was Still In It
(Documentary short)
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2019
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
(TV Movie documentary)
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2018
Target: St. Louis
(Documentary)
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2018
1968 < 2018 > 2068
(Documentary short)
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- The Racial Wealth Gap
(2018)
... Self
- No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
(2005)
... Self (uncredited)
2016
I Am Not Your Negro
(Documentary)
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2016
Maya Angelou And Still I Rise
(Documentary)
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2015
What Happened, Miss Simone?
(Documentary)
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- A Long March to Freedom
(2014)
... Self - Author
2014
The 50 Year Argument
(Documentary)
Self - Contributor
2011
Sing Your Song
(Documentary)
Self (uncredited)
2010
Public Speaking
(Documentary)
Self
2008
The James Baldwin Anthology
(Video documentary)
Self
2007
Brando
(TV Movie documentary)
Self (uncredited)
2003
Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man
(Documentary)
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- James Baldwin: Witness
(2003)
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2000
New York in the 50's
(Documentary)
Self
1998
Patience and Shuffle the Cards
(Video documentary)
Self
1997
The Speeches of Malcolm X
(Video documentary)
Self - Marches to Montgomery with Baez
- Malcolm X: Make It Plain
(1994)
... Self - Author (uncredited)
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Article:
"To Crush The Serpent", "Playboy" (USA), January 1987, p.66-70.
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