James Baldwin
Author profile
born
August 06, 1924
in Harlem, New York, The United States
died
November 30, 1987
gender
male
genre
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Go Tell it on the Mountain
— published 1953 — 36 editions |
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Giovanni's Room
— published 1956 — 29 editions |
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The Fire Next Time
— published 1963 — 16 editions |
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Another Country
— published 1962 — 23 editions |
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Notes of a Native Son
— published 1955 — 13 editions |
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If Beale Street Could Talk
— published 1974 — 23 editions |
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Going to Meet the Man
— published 1965 — 12 editions |
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Sonny's Blues
— published 1995 — 3 editions |
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
— published 1968 — 9 editions |
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Nobody Knows My Name
— published 1961 — 4 editions |
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James Baldwin
― James Baldwin
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin
― James Baldwin
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin
― James Baldwin
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