For most of his adult life, Baldwin lived as an expatriate in France, where he died in 1987. He was 63 years old. Terry spoke with James Baldwin in 1986. He told her that he grew up in Harlem ...

One-hundred years ago, James Arthur Jones was born in Harlem, New York. Soon after, his mother, Emma Berdis Jones, married David Baldwin, a volatile Baptist preacher. Her son, now called James ...

Who was James Baldwin? James Baldwin, one of America’s most influential writers, continues to inspire decades after his death. His unflinching exploration of race, sexuality and social justice ...

James Baldwin was born 100 years ago ... I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” Baldwin died on Dec. 1 at the age of 63 at his home in the south of France. NPR asked four people ...

In late 1962, James Baldwin wrote an open letter to ... of “A Letter to My Nephew,” and thirty-seven years since Baldwin’s death in 1987, at the age of sixty-three. August 2 marks what ...

Arguably, no writer has ever made that demand more forcefully, passionately, or eloquently than James Baldwin. More than 33 years since his death at age 63, Baldwin continues to give voice to our ...

James Baldwin is one of the most celebrated American ... Sponsor Message Some 40 years after his death, much of what he had to say about America continues to resonate. This week, Baldwin would ...

So many privacies now unguarded. The late James Baldwin, who died on the first of December in 1987, provides endlessly. You think, poring over his letters, that you are getting to know him better ...

James Baldwin — a friend of Martin Luther ... who despised white society and took his anger out on his family. (Just before Baldwin died, it was finally adapted for television starring Paul ...