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JamesBaldwin was born on August 2, 1924, and educated in New York.
Baldwin's play The Amen Corner was first performed at Howard University in 1955 (it was staged commercially in the 1960s), and his acclaimed collection of essays Notes of a Native Son, was published the same year.
Baldwin was made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor in June 1986.