1. James Baldwin passed away on December 1, 1987 suffering from esophageal cancer.
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4. James Baldwin was such a compelling author he inspired the FBI to compile a 1,884-page dossier on him.
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5. James Baldwin responded with three powerful books of essays: Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time (1963), in which he all but predicts the outbursts of black anger to come, and More Notes of a Native Son.
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6. James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York City, on August 2, 1924, the oldest of nine children.
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7. James Baldwin was raised in a Pentecostal church, dominated by the theology of "sinners in the hand of an angry God.
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12. James Baldwin spent much of the last fifteen years of his life in France, but he never gave up his American citizenship.
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21. James Baldwin was born to a young single mother, Emma Jones, at Harlem Hospital.
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26. James Baldwin was a cousin and close friend of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison.
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27. James Baldwin wrote at length about his "political relationship" with Malcolm X James Baldwin collaborated with childhood friend Richard Avedon on the 1964 book Nothing Personal.
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28. When James Baldwin was 15 years old, his high-school running buddy, Emile Capouya, skipped school one day and, in Greenwich Village, met Beauford Delaney, a painter.
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30. James Baldwin was a close friend of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison.
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32. James Baldwin wrote at length about his "political relationship" with Malcolm X James Baldwin collaborated with childhood friend Richard Avedon on the book Nothing Personal.
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34. James Baldwin was a close friend of the singer, pianist, and civil rights activist Nina Simone.
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35. In 1968, James Baldwin signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
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36. In March 1965, James Baldwin joined marchers who walked 50 miles from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery under the protection of federal troops.
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37. James Baldwin made a prominent appearance at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, with Belafonte and long-time friends Sidney Poitier and Marlon Brando.
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38. James Baldwin expressed the hope that socialism would take root in the United States.
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41. James Baldwin settled in Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the south of France in 1970, in an old Provencal house beneath the ramparts of the famous village.
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42. James Baldwin would spend some time in Switzerland and Turkey.
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44. James Baldwin befriended the actor Marlon Brando in 1944 and the two were roommates for a time.
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45. When James Baldwin was 15, his high-school running buddy, Emile Capouya, skipped school one day and, in Greenwich Village, met Beauford Delaney, a painter.
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48. James Baldwin was born in Indiana and made a career as an educator and administrator there starting at the age of 24.
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