James Baldwin

Acting

Born: 1924-08-02
Died: 1987-12-01
From: Harlem, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.3

Biography

James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.

Awards & Nominations6 won · 0 nominated

🏆 Won

VH1 Trailblazer Honors

2018
🏆 Won

honorary doctorate from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis

1982
🏆 Won

Langston Hughes Medal

1978
🏆 Won

George Polk Award

1962
🏆 Won

Guggenheim Fellowship

1954
🏆 Won

Commander of the Legion of Honour

Acting31 titles

Writing9 titles