James Baldwin
Essayist and novelist whose Notes of a Native Son reframed Black American moral and literary identity.
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Born 1924 in Harlem; spent much of his adult life in southern France but his consciousness was forged in the segregated South of his ancestors. Notes of a Native Son (1955), The Fire Next Time (1963), and Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) remain canonical.
Location
New York, NY, USA
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