James Baldwin

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was an American writer, essayist, novelist, playwright, and poet. Born in Harlem, New York, he addressed racism, social inequality, and sexual identity in his writing and engaged in the civil rights movement. His best-known works include the essay collection *Notes of a Native Son* and the novels *Giovanni’s Room*, *Another Country*, *If Beale Street Could Talk*, and *Go Tell It on the Mountain*. Baldwin died in 1987.