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James Baldwin was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel, Go
Tell It on the Mountain (1953), which evokes his experiences as a
boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwin's second
novel, Giovanni's Room (1956) has become a landmark of gay
literature and Another Country (1962) caused a literary sensation.
His searing essay collections Notes of a Native Son (1955) and
Nobody Knows My Name (1961) contain many of the works that made him
an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin
published several other collections of non-fiction, including The
Fire Next Time (1963) and No Name in the Street (1972). His short
stories are collected in Going to Meet the Man (1965). His later
works include the novels Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
(1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) and Just Above My Head
(1979).
James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships- a Eugene F.
Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim
Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship and a Ford Foundation
grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He
died in 1987 in France
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