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James Baldwin Timeline

By: Jonathan Preddie

Work Cited

“James Baldwin.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 19 Jan. 2018, www.biography.com/people/james-baldwin-9196635.

James Baldwin Famous Quotes

His Work

  • "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
  • To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
  • People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
  • Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
  • His first novel was "Go Tell it on the Mountain"
  • Tells a story about the life of a young man growing up in Harlem.
  • The young man faces father issues and his religious life.
  • His second novel was called "Giovanni's Room"
  • This book was about an American living in Paris, and broke new ground for his depiction of homosexuality.
  • His most famous book was 'The Fire Next Time"
  • This book was a collection of Essays meant to educate Americans on what it meant to be black
  • Offers readers a view of themselves through the eyes of the African-American community

More Early Life

  • He started publishing numerous poems.
  • Graduated high school in 1942
  • Put college on hold to help support his family, including 7 younger siblings
  • July 29th 1943, his father died.
  • Devoting himself to writing a novel, he took odd jobs to support himself.
  • He befriended Richard Wright and through him he was able to land a fellowship in 1945 to cover expenses.
  • Three years later, he went to Paris on another fellowship

Early Childhood

  • James Arthur Baldwin was born on August 2nd 1924 in New York City
  • Born to single mother Emma Jones, who gets married to David Baldwin when James is 3 years old.
  • From ages 14-16 he served as a youth minister in a Harlem Church.
  • As a child he loved to read.
  • Worked on school magazine with future famous photographer Richard Avedon
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