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James Baldwin Biography
James Baldwin is one of the famous Novelist, who was born on the memorable day of August 2 in the year 1924. Hailing from the vibrant city of North Carolina, James Baldwin is a proud citizen of United States.
Influential 20th-century author whose works explore themes of race, class, and sexual orientation. His most famous novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953.
Over the years, not only have skills been honed, but a significant impact has also been made in the professional field. Whether it's through work, public appearances, or contributions to the community, James Baldwin continues to be an inspiration for many.
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First Name
James
Last Name
Baldwin
Death Date
1987-12-01
Death Day
December 01
Death Year
1987
Cause of Death
Natural Causes
Manner of Death
Stomach Cancer
Place of Death
Saint Paul de Vence, France
Place of Burial
Ferncliff Cemetery
Education
Bowling Green State University; New School; DeWitt Clinton High School
Family
He was raised by his mother, Emma Berdis Jones, and his stepfather, David Baldwin. In 1948, he fled to Paris to come to terms with his homosexual orientation and to escape American prejudice against gays and African-Americans.
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He was good friends with legendary actor, Marlon Brando.
Career
He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and worked on the school newspaper with co-editor Richard Avedon. He had a brief stint with religion in his mid-teens, becoming a Pentecostal preacher at the young age of fourteen and leaving the church
Trivia
He was a prominent figure in the American Civil Rights Movement; he graced the May 1963 cover of Time magazine.
Net Worth & Salary
James Baldwin net worth is $5 Million (2022).
James Baldwin Timeline
1863
David Baldwin was many years Emma's senior; he may have been born before Emancipation in 1863, although James did not know exactly how old his stepfather was.
1903
A native of Deal Island, Maryland, where she was born in 1903, Emma Jones was one of the many who fled racial segregation in the South during the Great Migration.
1919
David Baldwin was born in Bunkie, Louisiana, and preached in New Orleans, but left the South for Harlem in 1919.
1920
During the 1920s and 1930s, David worked at a soft-drinks bottling factory, though he was eventually laid off from this job, and, as his anger entered his sermons, he became less in demand as a preacher.
1927
In 1927, Jones married David Baldwin, a laborer and Baptist preacher.
1937
Porter took Baldwin to the library on 42nd Street to research a piece that would turn into Baldwin's first published essay titled "Harlem—Then and Now", which appeared in the autumn 1937 issue of Douglass Pilot.
1938
Baldwin graduated from Frederick Douglass Junior High in 1938.
1941
Baldwin finished at De Witt Clinton in 1941.
1942
In the middle of 1942 Emile Capouya helped Baldwin get a job laying tracks for the military in Belle Mead, New Jersey.
1943
He was committed to a mental asylum in 1943 and died of tuberculosis on July 29 of that year, the same day Emma gave birth to their last child, Paula.
1944
In 1944 Baldwin met Marlon Brando, whom he was also attracted to, at a theater class in The New School.
1945
Later, in 1945, Baldwin started a literary magazine called The Generation with Claire Burch, who was married to
Brad Burch, Baldwin's classmate from De Witt Clinton.
1946
Baldwin never expressed his desire for Worth, and Worth died by suicide after jumping from the George Washington Bridge in 1946.
1947
Baldwin wrote many reviews for The New Leader, but was published for the first time in The Nation in a 1947 review of Maxim Gorki's Best Short Stories.
1948
Nonetheless, Baldwin sent letters to Wright regularly in the subsequent years and would reunite with Wright in Paris in 1948, though their relationship turned for the worse soon after the Paris reunion.
1949
In December 1949, Baldwin was arrested and jailed for receiving stolen goods after an American friend brought him bedsheets that the friend had taken from another Paris hotel.
1950
Baldwin's relationship with the Burches soured in the 1950s but was resurrected near the end of his life.
1951
Beginning in the winter of 1951, Baldwin and Happersberger took several trips to Loèches-les-Bains in Switzerland, where Happersberger's family owned a small chateau.
1952
Knopf on February 26, 1952, and Knopf expressed interest in the novel several months later.
1953
His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953; decades later, Time magazine included the novel on its list of the 100 best English-language novels released from 1923 to 2005.
1954
In 1954 Baldwin took a fellowship at the MacDowell writer's colony in New Hampshire to help the process of writing of a new novel and won a Guggenheim Fellowship.
1955
His first essay collection, Notes of a Native Son, was published in 1955.
1956
Such dynamics are prominent in Baldwin's second novel, Giovanni's Room, which was written in 1956, well before the gay liberation movement.
1957
Baldwin committed himself to a return to the United States in 1957, so he set about in early 1956 to enjoy what would be his last year in France.
1960
James Baldwin's FBI file contains 1,884 pages of documents, collected from 1960 until the early 1970s.
1962
Baldwin's third and fourth novels, Another Country (1962) and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968), are sprawling, experimental works dealing with Black and white characters, as well as with heterosexual, gay, and bisexual characters.
1963
Baldwin's lengthy essay "Down at the Cross" (frequently called The Fire Next Time after the title of the 1963 book in which it was published) similarly showed the seething discontent of the 1960s in novel form.
1964
In a 1964 interview with Robert Penn Warren for the book Who Speaks for the Negro?, Baldwin rejected the idea that the civil rights movement was an outright revolution, instead calling it "a very peculiar revolution because it has to... have its aims the establishment of a union, and a... radical shift in the American mores, the American way of life... not only as it applies to the Negro obviously, but as it applies to every citizen of the country." In a 1979 speech at UC Berkeley, Baldwin called it, instead, "the latest slave rebellion".
1965
In 1965, Baldwin participated in a much publicised debate with William F.
1968
In 1968, Baldwin signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse to make income tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
1969
Maya Angelou called Baldwin her "friend and brother" and credited him for "setting the stage" for her 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
1970
Baldwin's writings of the 1970s and 1980s were largely overlooked by critics, although they have received increasing attention in recent years.
1972
Baldwin's next book-length essay, No Name in the Street (1972), also discussed his own experience in the context of the later 1960s, specifically the assassinations of three of his personal friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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1979
He wrote several of his last works in his house in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, including Just Above My Head in 1979 and Evidence of Things Not Seen in 1985.
1980
Several of his essays and interviews of the 1980s discuss homosexuality and homophobia with fervor and forthrightness.
1983
He concluded his career by publishing a volume of poetry, Jimmy's Blues (1983), as well as another book-length essay, The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985), an extended reflection on race inspired by the Atlanta murders of 1979–1981.
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1985
In The Price of the Ticket (1985), Baldwin describes Delaney as
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1986
Baldwin was made a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government in 1986.
1987
He continued to publish in that magazine at various times in his career and was serving on its editorial board at his death in 1987.
1990
Following his death, publishing company McGraw-Hill took the unprecedented step of suing his estate to recover the $200,000 advance they had paid him for the book, although the lawsuit was dropped by 1990.
1992
In 1992, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, established the James Baldwin Scholars program, an urban outreach initiative, in honor of Baldwin, who taught at Hampshire in the early 1980s.
1996
Spike Lee's 1996 film Get on the Bus includes a Black gay character, played by Isaiah Washington, who punches a homophobic character, saying: "This is for James Baldwin and Langston Hughes."
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1998
Baldwin's influence on other writers has been profound: Toni Morrison edited the Library of America's first two volumes of Baldwin's fiction and essays: Early Novels & Stories (1998) and Collected Essays (1998).
1999
This meeting is discussed in Howard Simon's 1999 play, James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire.
2002
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included James Baldwin on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
2005
In 2005, the United States Postal Service created a first-class postage stamp dedicated to Baldwin, which featured him on the front with a short biography on the back of the peeling paper.
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2010
Happersberger died on August 21, 2010, in Switzerland.
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2012
In 2012, Baldwin was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBT history and people.
2014
In 2014, East 128th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues was named "James Baldwin Place" to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Baldwin's birth.
2015
A third volume, Later Novels (2015), was edited by Darryl Pinckney, who had delivered a talk on Baldwin in February 2013 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The New York Review of Books, during which he stated: "No other black writer I'd read was as literary as Baldwin in his early essays, not even Ralph Ellison.
2016
An unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, was expanded and adapted for cinema as the documentary film I Am Not Your Negro (2016), which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards.
2017
In 2017, Scott Timberg wrote an essay for the Los Angeles Times ("30 years after his death, James Baldwin is having a new pop culture moment") in which he noted existing cultural references to Baldwin, 30 years after his death, and concluded: "So Baldwin is not just a writer for the ages, but a scribe whose work—as squarely as George Orwell's—speaks directly to ours.".
2018
One of his novels, If Beale Street Could Talk, was adapted into the Academy Award– winning film of the same name in 2018, directed and produced by Barry Jenkins.
2019
Construction was completed in 2019 on the apartment complex that now stands where Chez Baldwin once stood.
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2021
In 2021, Paris City Hall announced that the writer would give his name to the very first media library in the 19th arrondissement, which is scheduled to open in 2023.
