James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.
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![Cover of: Going to Meet the Man [ Seventh Dell printing, March 1970 ] (the short fiction of James Baldwin)](http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/14970562-M.jpg "Cover of: Going to Meet the Man [ Seventh Dell printing, March 1970 ] (the short fiction of James Baldwin)")
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- Baldwin, James
- James A. Baldwin
- Robert Dudley
- James [1924 - 1987] Baldwin
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- James Baldwin PhD
- James. Baldwin
- James Boldwin
- james baldwin
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