International Research Journal of Education and Technology

This article examines the life and works of James Baldwin, a renowned African American novelist. This study presents the idea of James Baldwin as an Afro-American Novelist.  As a freedom writer, Baldwin was a revolution any intellectual, an essayist and novelist committed unfailingly to the realization of racial justice, interracial political equality, and economic democracy. While the book is still in process, this short essay narrates autobiographically how I came to meet and know Baldwin’s work, explains in critical fashion my work in relation to existing biographies, and reflects interpretively my thoughts-in-progress on this fascinating and captivating figure of immense historical and social consequence. His literary career spanned four decades, producing iconic novels and essays exploring racial identity, American expatriation, homosexuality, and morality. Baldwin's unique style blended autobiographical elements, biblical allusions, existentialism, and jazz/blues influences.

Keywords: James Baldwin, biography, American culture, African-American history, black