Person Detail: James Baldwin
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| 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. |
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| Year: 1924 | Event: BIRTH |
New York County James Baldwin was born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York, in 1924. |
| Year: 1942 | Event: RESIDENCE |
Bronx County James Baldwin attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York, and graduated in 1942. |
| Year: 1953 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Go Tell It On The Mountain Novel. |
| Year: 1955 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Notes of a Native Son Some of Baldwin's essays were included in this collection. |
| Year: 1955 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County The Amen Corner Play. |
| Year: 1956 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Giovanni's Room Novel. |
| Year: 1962 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Another County |
| Year: 1962 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Nobody Knows My Name Essay collection. |
| Year: 1963 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County The Fire Next Time |
| Year: 1968 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone Novel. |
| Year: 1974 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County If Beale Street Could Talk Novel. |
| Year: 1979 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Just Above My Head Novel. |
| Year: 1987 | Event: DEATH |
(Unknown) County Baldwin died of stomach cancer in Saint-Paul de Vence, France, in 1987. |
| Year: 1987 | Event: INTERMENT |
Westchester County James Baldwin was interred at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, New York. |
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