James Baldwin
James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York. ... Close to the end of those three years Baldwin was ready to move on. ... Baldwin was known for moving around, and it was in Switzerland that he finished his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain. ... The theme of Baldwin’s second novel dealt with homosexuality. ... Baldwin also expressed his views about interracial conflict in his fiction and dramas of the 1960s.