Novelist, essayist, intellectual, and activist James Baldwin (1924–1987) is renowned as one of the world’s most influential and prophetic voices of our time. In celebration of James Baldwin's 100th birthday, on public display for the first time, we proudly present selections from the James Baldwin Papers.| The New York Public Library
Let us celebrate James Baldwin on the day of his birth, August 2, 1924, beginning at The New York Public Library, where many of his papers and manuscripts are housed at the Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.| GothamToGo - Art & Culture
Photo Courtesy of NYPL NYPL will honor one of its most legendary patrons with exhibitions at libraries he frequented, along with programming and book giveaways To celebrate what would have been th…| City Life Org