James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.
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![Cover of: Going to Meet the Man [ Seventh Dell printing, March 1970 ] (the short fiction of James Baldwin)](http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/14970562-M.jpg "Cover of: Going to Meet the Man [ Seventh Dell printing, March 1970 ] (the short fiction of James Baldwin)")
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African Americans, Fiction, Race relations, American fiction (fictional works by one author), History, African American authors, American literature, Baldwin, james, 1924-1987, Children's fiction, Literature, Racism, Social conditions, United states, race relations, African americans, fiction, Afro-Americans, Classic Literature, Drama, Fiction, general, short story, African American men, American fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Satanism, African American, BlacksPlaces
United States, Alabama, Massachusetts, Owl Creek Bridge, England, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Milford meeting house, New England, Salem Village, Andover, Barbados, China, Dublin, Eastern Europe, Florida, Fountain of Youth, Harlem, Jefferson, Mallard residence, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Salem, Salem (Mass.), Soviet Union, America, AtlantaPeople
James Baldwin (1924-1987), Devil, Peyton Farquhar, Elizabeth, Faith Brown, Goodman Brown, Goody Cloyse, Mr. Hooper, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Colonel Killigrew, Dr. Heidegger, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, John Hale, John Hathorne, John ProctorTime
20th century, 1861-1865, 19th century, American Civil War, 1600s, 1861-65, 1692, Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, To 1964, 1964-1975, 1970, 1970-, 1979, 20e siècle, Antebellum era, December, Mid-20th century, carnivalID Numbers
- OLID: OL391839A
- Amazon ID: B000APVA9U
- BookBrainz: 034280de-a359-4928-8035-c6f66ba54f6a
- GoodReads: 10427
- ISNI: 0000000121446704
- Integrated Authority File (GND): 118506196
- IMDb: nm0049924
- Library of Congress Names: n79076619
- LibraryThing: baldwinjames-1
- MusicBrainz: 1c0dfc5c-f850-43fe-bc5f-5b057180481b
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV080204
- Storygraph: 1179f3c7-bc7a-4d95-b322-d2aef34874e0
- VIAF: 97644708
- Wikidata: Q273210
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Alternative names
- Baldwin, James
- James A. Baldwin
- Robert Dudley
- James [1924 - 1987] Baldwin
- jAMES bALDWIN
- James Baldwin PhD
- James. Baldwin
- James Boldwin
- james baldwin
- James Arthur Baldwin
- James Baldwin, Alston Anderson, Owen Dodson, William Melvin Kelley, Langston Hughes, Ernest J. Gaines, Richard Wright, Ann Petry
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