Baldwin, James Arthur

US novelist, short story writer, and essayist

1924 - Born on the 2nd of August in New York's Harlem neighborhood.

1942 - Graduated in DeWitt Clinton High School, New York City.

1953 - Wrote autobiographical novel Go Tell It on the Mountain.

1954 - He wrote the Wrote The Amen Corner and performed in 1965.

1955 - Essay Notes of a Native Son.

1956 - His novel Giovanni's Room.

1961 - He wrote Nobody Knows My Name.

1962 - Another Country (1962, novel),The Fire Next Time a nonfiction, on Muslim black separatism.

1964 - James Baldwin wrote Blues for Mister Charlie.

1974 - He wrote novel If Beale Street Could Talk.

1979 - The novel Just Above My Head.

1985 - Essay The Price of the Ticket.

1987 - James Baldwin died on 30th of November in Saint-Paul de Vence, France due to Cancer of the Stomach.

• "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
• "The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."
• "Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."
• "Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."
• "You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it."