Person Detail: James Baldwin
Is this YOU? Click here to request an update to your information.
| 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. |
||
| 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. |
|
| 1953 |
(Unknown) County Go Tell It On The Mountain 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. |
|
| 1956 |
(Unknown) County Giovanni's Room Novel. |
|
| 1962 |
(Unknown) County Another County |
|
| 1962 |
(Unknown) County Nobody Knows My Name Essay collection. |
|
| 1963 |
(Unknown) County The Fire Next Time |
|
| 1968 |
(Unknown) County Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone Novel. |
|
| 1974 |
(Unknown) County If Beale Street Could Talk Novel. |
|
| 1979 |
(Unknown) County Just Above My Head Novel. |
|
| 1987 |
(Unknown) County Baldwin died of stomach cancer in Saint-Paul de Vence, France, in 1987. |
|
| 1987 |
Westchester County James Baldwin was interred at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, New York. |
|
![[Please Wait Spinner]](/images/progressGreenCircle.gif)
Please Wait...