![]() He died of stomach cancer at his home in St. Wrote the play, The Amen Corner and won the Guggenheim Fellowship.ĭuring the 1960’s Baldwin returned to the United States andīecame politically active in support of civil rights.īaldwin wrote novels, poetry, essays and a screenplay in ![]() Stands as a partially autobiographical account of his youth. In 1953 he finished his important novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain which Where he met Richard Wright and began his first novel, In My Father’s House. Jersey to begin working as a railroad hand. He graduated from high school in 1942 and moved to New He attended Frederick Douglass Junior High School and DeWitt Clinton His writing started as a way to escape his stern ![]() Baldwin was a storefront preacher for three years The first of nine children of Berdis (Jones) a clergyman and a factory worker, David Baldwin was profiled by Kalamu ya Salaam in the Spring 1999 issue of Mosaic Literary Magazine ![]()
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