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These books would also go on to become his most succesful and celebrated work. His essays Nobody Knows My Name, published in 1960 and The Fire Next Time, published in 1963, captures and defines this time more than perhaps any book written during this era. However, during the 1960's, Baldwin could not ignore the call of the Civil Rights Movement and divides his time between the United States and France to participate and lend his voice to a growing and changing time. He goes on to complete Notes of a Native Son, in 1955 also while living as an expatriate. In 1948, after growig up and experiencing the burden of racial oppression and poverty in New York, he like other Black artists before him, moves to Paris France, at the age of 24, to complete Go Tell It On the Mountain, his first novel, published in 1953. James Arthur Baldwin, born on Augin Harlem, New York, was the oldest of 9 siblings. However, when searching for the work of an author that captures, defines, and articulates, the racial divide in this country, perhaps James Baldwin should sit at the top of the list. In an attempt to understand, find the answers to questions, or just shed some light on what brings us to this dark difficult place at this time, so many are revisting or discovering the work of African American authors. With the political unrest, tension, divide, and the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement, spreadig across the country, it's almost impossible to believe that this is the summer of 2020 and not 1963.