James Baldwin
1924 to 1987
16 documented presences
12 places
Quo Fuit places 16 dated presences for James Baldwin across 12 places, from 1924 to 1987. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where James Baldwin was documented, and when
2 August 1924exact date
New York Cityattested
“Baldwin was born as James Arthur Jones to Emma Berdis Jones on August 2, 1924, at Harlem Hospital in New York City.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
2 August 1924exact date
Harlem Hospitalattested
“Baldwin was born as James Arthur Jones to Emma Berdis Jones on August 2, 1924, at Harlem Hospital in New York City.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
2 August 1924exact date
Harlemattested
“Baldwin was born as James Arthur Jones to Emma Berdis Jones on August 2, 1924, at Harlem Hospital in New York City.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
2 August 1924exact date
New Yorkattested
“Baldwin was born as James Arthur Jones to Emma Berdis Jones on August 2, 1924, at Harlem Hospital in New York City.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
June 1943month
Harlemattested
“Fired from the track-laying job, Baldwin returned to Harlem in June 1943 to live with his family after taking a meat-packing job.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1946year
George Washington Bridgeattested
“Baldwin never expressed his desire for Worth, and Worth died by suicide after jumping from the George Washington Bridge in 1946.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1948year
Woodstock, New Yorkattested
“Baldwin spent two months during the summer of 1948 at Shanks Village, a writer's colony in Woodstock, New York.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1948year
Woodstockattested
“Baldwin spent two months during the summer of 1948 at Shanks Village, a writer's colony in Woodstock, New York.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1956 to 1957period
Franceattested
“Baldwin decided that he would return to the United States in 1957, so in early 1956, he decided to enjoy what was to be his last year in France.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1956 to 1957period
United Statesattested
“Baldwin decided that he would return to the United States in 1957, so in early 1956, he decided to enjoy what was to be his last year in France.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1957year
New Yorkattested
“[...] There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation." Baldwin initially intended to complete Another Country before returning to New York in the fall of 1957, but progress on the novel was slow, so he decided…”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1957year
United Statesattested
“[...] There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation." Baldwin initially intended to complete Another Country before returning to New York in the fall of 1957, but progress on the novel was slow, so he decided…”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1961year
Israelattested
“He briefly traveled to Israel in 1961, planning to continue on to Africa, but opting instead to travel to Turkey.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1962year
Franceattested
“In 1962, when Baldwin had already spent fourteen years as an expatriate living in France, he published his essay Letter from a Region in My Mind in The New Yorker.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1987year
1 December 1987exact date
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Places James Baldwin is documented in
France2 presences · 1956 to 1962Harlem2 presences · 1924 to 1943New York2 presences · 1924 to 1957United States2 presences · 1956 to 1957Baltimore1 presence · 1987Israel1 presence · 1961New York City1 presence · 1924Woodstock1 presence · 1948
George Washington Bridge1 presence · 1946
Harlem Hospital1 presence · 1924
Saint-Paul-de-Vence1 presence · 1987
Woodstock, New York1 presence · 1948
Other places tied to James Baldwin in the record
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1916 to 1950period
Parismentioned
“In rejecting the ideological manacles of protest literature and the presupposition he thought inherent to such works that "in Negro life there exists no tradition, no field of manners, no possibility of ritual or intercourse", Baldwin so…”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1916 to 1950period
Harlemmentioned
“In rejecting the ideological manacles of protest literature and the presupposition he thought inherent to such works that "in Negro life there exists no tradition, no field of manners, no possibility of ritual or intercourse", Baldwin so…”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1938year
De Witt Clinton High Schoolmentioned
“In 1938, Baldwin applied to and was accepted at De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx, a predominantly white and Jewish school, where he matriculated that fall.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1938year
The Bronxmentioned
“In 1938, Baldwin applied to and was accepted at De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx, a predominantly white and Jewish school, where he matriculated that fall.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1942year
Belle Mead, New Jerseymentioned
“In the middle of 1942, Emile Capouya helped Baldwin get a job laying tracks for the military in Belle Mead, New Jersey.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1944year
The New Schoolmentioned
“In 1944, Baldwin met Marlon Brando, to whom he was also attracted, at a theater class at The New School.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1948year
Parismentioned
“Nonetheless, Baldwin regularly sent letters to Wright in subsequent years and would reunite with Wright in Paris, France, in 1948 (though their relationship took a turn for the worse soon after the Paris reunion).”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1948year
Harlemmentioned
“In 1948, Baldwin received a $1,500 grant () from a Rosenwald Fellowship in order to produce a book of photographs and essays that was to be both a catalog of churches and an exploration of religiosity in Harlem.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
11 November 1948exact date
New Yorkmentioned
“After saying his goodbyes to his mother and his younger siblings, with forty dollars to his name, Baldwin flew from New York to Paris on November 11, 1948.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1950year
Parismentioned
“When the charges were dismissed several days later, to the laughter of the courtroom, Baldwin wrote of the experience in his essay "Equal in Paris", also published in Commentary in 1950.”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1951year
Switzerlandmentioned
“Meanwhile, "Everybody's Protest Novel" had earned Baldwin the label "the most promising young Negro writer since Richard Wright." Beginning in the winter of 1951, Baldwin and Happersberger took several trips to Loèches-les-Bains in Switz…”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1951year
Leukerbadmentioned
“Meanwhile, "Everybody's Protest Novel" had earned Baldwin the label "the most promising young Negro writer since Richard Wright." Beginning in the winter of 1951, Baldwin and Happersberger took several trips to Loèches-les-Bains in Switz…”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
April 1952month
United Statesmentioned
“To settle the terms of his association with Knopf, Baldwin sailed back to the United States in April 1952 on the SS Île de France, where Themistocles Hoetis and Dizzy Gillespie were coincidentally also voyaging—his conversations with bot…”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1953year
Parismentioned
“Even though his time in Paris was not easy, Baldwin escaped from the aspects of American life that outraged him the most—especially the "daily indignities of racism." According to one biographer: "Baldwin seemed at ease in his Paris life…”
source: Wikipedia: James Baldwin
1953year
1954year
1954year
May 1954month
May 1954month
October 1955month
1956year
10 December 1961exact date
1963year
1963year
Documented at the same place, the same year
Patricia HighsmithNew York · 1924Joseph L. MankiewiczNew York · 1924Hannah ArendtIsrael · 1961George GurdjieffNew York · 1924Carlo PontiFrance · 1962Natalia GoncharovaFrance · 1962Carl WoeseFrance · 1962Margaret MeadNew York City · 1924Lauren BacallThe Bronx · 1924Guy Williams (actor)The Bronx · 1924Bud PowellThe Bronx · 1924Erich FrommNew York · 1957
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