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.