
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
August 2, 1924
Died
December 1, 1987 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Harlem, New York, USA
James Baldwin
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting

6.6
The New Yorker at 100
2025

6.7
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022

7.5
Madonna: Madame X
2021

7.5
Explained
2018

7.8
Bobby Kennedy for President
2018

7.0
Public Speaking
2011

6.7
The Statue of Liberty
1985

7.1
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
1971

7.1
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970

6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968








