“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” —James Baldwin

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Profession(s) | Novelist | Social Critic | 

Born: August 2, 1924, Died: December 1, 1987

James Arthur “Jimmy” Baldwin was an American novelist and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. Some of Baldwin’s essays are book-length, including The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976). An unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, was expanded and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award-nominated documentary film I Am Not Your Negro. (Source + full bio: Wikipedia.org)