James Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, but most notably in mid-20th-century North America. Wikipedia

Born: 2 August 1924, Harlem, New York, United States
Died: 1 December 1987, Saint Paul de Vence, France
Movies: I Am Not Your Negro, If Beale Street Could Talk, Where the Heart Is, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Plays: The Amen Corner, Blues for Mister Charlie