What is James Baldwin?
{{Infobox writer | name = James Baldwin | image = James Baldwin 37 Allan Warren (cropped).jpg | image_upright = | caption = Baldwin in 1969 | birth_date = {{Birth date |1924|8|2}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age |1987|12|1 |1924|8|2}} | death_place = [[Saint-Paul-de-Vence]], France | resting_place = [[Ferncliff Cemetery]], Westchester County, New York | occupation = Novelist, playwright, activist | language = English | alma_mater = | notableworks = {{plainlist| *''[[Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)|Go Tell It on the Mountain]]'' *''[[Giovanni's Room]]'' *''[[Notes of a Native Son]]'' }} | years_active = 1947–1985 | genre = {{ublist|[[Urban fiction]]|[[African-American literature]]|[[Gay literature]]}} | education = [[DeWitt Clinton High School]] }} '''James Arthur Baldwin''' (August 2, 1924 &ndash; December 1, 1987) was an [[Americans|American]] [[novelist]], [[Essay|essayist]], [[playwright]], and [[Criticism|social critic.]] Baldwin's essays, such as the collection ''Notes of a Native Son'' (1955), explore [[racial]], [[Sex|sexual]], and [[Social class|class]] matters in [[Western world|Western societies]], mostly in mid-20th-century America. He looks at how these large things cause problems for, mostly but not only, [[African Americans|African American]] individuals.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2023-02-16|title=James Baldwin|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-baldwin|access-date=2023-02-16|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en}}</ref> ==Life== Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924 in [[Harlem]], [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]. He studied at [[DeWitt Clinton High School]] and at [[The New School]]. Baldwin was [[gay]]. He never married and had no children. Baldwin died on December 1, 1987 in [[Saint-Paul de Vence]], [[France]] from [[esophageal cancer]], aged 63.<ref>[http://www.biography.com/articles/James-Baldwin-9196635?part=2 James Baldwin Biography], accessed December 2, 2010</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/20/books/james-baldwin