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James Baldwin

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Dec 1, 1987
Zodiac
Leo
Born in
New York City NY
About
Influential 20th-century author whose works explore themes of race, class, and sexual orientation. His most famous novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953.
Family
He was raised by his mother, Emma Berdis Jones, and his stepfather, David Baldwin. In 1948, he fled to Paris to come to terms with his homosexual orientation and to escape American prejudice against gays and African-Americans.

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