Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Baldwin NPG x88248

© Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mark Gerson

Born in Harlem, Baldwin was brought up in New York by his mother and stepfather, a church minister. At the age of thirteen, he wrote Harlem - Then and Now, his first article for his school magazine. On his nineteenth birthday in 1943, he witnessed the Harlem race riots which were to feature in his essay Notes of a Native Son. His works include Remember This House which was adapted for cinema as the Academy Award-nominated documentary film I Am Not Your Negro. Many of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.