James Baldwin

James Baldwin

  • Born: 1924-8-2
  • Birthplace: New York City, United States
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  • Profession: Writer, Essayist, Dramatist, Social Critic
  • Nationality: America
  • Representative Works: Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African-American writer, essayist, dramatist, and social critic. During his life, he has written quite a lot, including six novels, four plays, a dozen collections of essays, a children's book and a volume of poetry [2]  . His works cover a very wide range. His novel " Go Tell It on the Mountain " is juxtaposed with Richard Wright 's " Native Son " and Ralph Ellison 's " Invisible Man " as a model of African American literature of the 1940s and 1950s. In the development of African American literature after World War II , Baldwin played a linking role and was a "truly essential" writer.
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    • Reba 2022-04-12 08:01:01

      Bob Dylan: The Lost Way Home

      Bob Dylan is a guy who doesn't like being labeled. In one of the information clips, I also saw him saying, I am a protest singer, and my songs are protesting. I turned around and saw how much he hated being labeled by others. Because he is also growing. So he's no longer a protest singer, he...

    • Allie 2022-04-12 08:01:01

      Bob Dylan , where is home

      Directed by Martin Scorsese, the Bob Dylan documentary, which was freshly released in 2005, is really sore after watching it for 3 and a half hours. This is not the first music documentary made by Scorsese. It should be said that Scorsese's ability to collect historical materials is absolutely...

    • Adriel 2022-04-12 08:01:01

      "It struck me as funny that these guys at the summit of power, spiritual power, musical power, world fame, '65, May, June, were so unsure of their minds and speech."—Allen Ginsberg

    • Kasey 2022-04-16 09:01:09

      It's not just dylan, but the picture of dylan and baez together in that era is really true. . . So loving TT diamonds & rust...

    No Direction Home: Bob Dylan quotes

    • Reporter: How many people who major in the same musical vineyard in which you toil, how many are protest singers? That is, people who use their music, and use the songs to protest the uh, social state in which we live today, the matter of war, the matter of crime, or whatever it might be.

      Bob Dylan: Um... how many?

      Reporter: Yes. How many?

      Bob Dylan: Uh, I think there's about uh, 136.

      [People around him giggle. The reporter doesn't laugh]

      Reporter: You say ABOUT 136, or you mean exactly 136?

      Bob Dylan: Uh, it's either 136 or 142.

    • Bob Dylan: We all like motorcycles to some degree.