Actor · Novel · Writer · Original Story
Born Aug 2, 1924 · Harlem, New York, USA
Active 1963–1987 · Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, George Polk Award, Langston Hughes Medal, Commander of the Legion of Honour, VH1 Trailblazer Honors, honorary doctorate from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in…