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James Baldwin was born the in Harlem, New York and was the eldest of nine children.
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Baptist minister named David Baldwin when James was about three years old.
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He served as a youth minister in a Harlem Pentecostal church from the ages of 14 to 16.
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Baldwin graduated from high school on
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On July 29, 1943, Baldwin lost his father
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at the age of 24 Baldwin decided to move to France to escape his homophobic African American community.
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semi-autobiographical that tells the story of a young man growing up in Harlem grappling with father issues and his religion.
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Notes of a Native Son is a collection of ten essays by James Baldwin, published in 1955, mostly tackling issues of race in America and Europe
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Giovanni's Room is a novel about an American man who in living in Paris who falls in love with an Italian man he met at a gay bar.
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The Fire Next Time published in 1963 was a collection of essays was meant to educate white Americans on what it meant to be Black
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Go Tell It on the Mountain was adapted into a movie
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December 1, 1987, Saint Paul de Vence, France
