Person Detail: James Baldwin

General Information:
Full Name: James Baldwin
Biography: (1924-1987) Author, writer. James Baldwin was born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York, and spent an impoverished boyhood there. At 14 he became a preacher in the Fireside Pentecostal Church. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York. In 2004 the United States Postal Service issued its twentieth stamp in the Literary Arts series in honor of James Baldwin.
Author's Timeline:
1924		New York County James Baldwin was born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York, in 1924.
1942		Bronx County James Baldwin attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York, and graduated in 1942.
1987		(Unknown) County Baldwin died of stomach cancer in Saint-Paul de Vence, France, in 1987.
1953		(Unknown) County Go Tell It On The Mountain Novel.
1962		(Unknown) County Another County
1963		(Unknown) County The Fire Next Time
1956		(Unknown) County Giovanni's Room Novel.
1968		(Unknown) County Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone Novel.
1955		(Unknown) County Notes of a Native Son Some of Baldwin's essays were included in this collection.
1955		(Unknown) County The Amen Corner Play.
1962		(Unknown) County Nobody Knows My Name Essay collection.
1974		(Unknown) County If Beale Street Could Talk Novel.
1979		(Unknown) County Just Above My Head Novel.
1987		Westchester County James Baldwin was interred at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, New York.