James Baldwin
- Born
- 2 August 1924 (63 years old)
- Died
- 1 December 1987
- Place of birth
- Harlem, New York, USA
- Gender
- Male
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 Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.
