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James Baldwin
born 1924
Harlem, Manhattan, New York
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Allan warren · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Born in Harlem Hospital to an unmarried domestic worker, raised by a stepfather preacher he could not please, and a boy preacher himself at fourteen. He left for Paris at twenty-four to be able to write about America, and came back to argue with it in person.
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