James A. Baldwin [1924-1987] American Rank: 11 Author, Novelist
James Arthur Baldwin was an 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. Love, Power, Education, Future, Society, Alone, Beauty, Failure, Fear, Good, History, Hope, Independence, Knowledge, Memorial Day, Men, Money, Positive, Relationship, Respect, Sad, Time, War, Work | |