James Baldwin was an American playwright, author, poet, essayist and an active activist for the civil rights movement most of Baldwins work is about racism and sexual problems during the mid-1900’s. He is know for his personal style of writing romans on how people were stressing about being a different skin colour or being attracted to the same gender. Baldwin was one of many afroamerican atheists in Harlem, New York City.
He is Born the 2nd og August, 1924 in Harlem, New York, when Baldwin was an infants he and his mother (Emma Berdin Joynes) moved to Harlem, they then met a preacher (David Baldwin) who she later married and adopted James Baldwin as his own.
Their family was quite poor and Baldwin later got his degree from the prestigious DeWitt Clinton High School in Bronx, where he worked for the school news paper. During Baldwins teen years he started to recognise his sexuality, in 1948 he became disillusioned of black and gay people and left America so he could move to Paris, France. He did this not just as a wish but also to distance himself from prejudices as the council of American society.
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