The writer who changed my life was the great African American novelist James Baldwin.

改变了我人生的作者是伟大的非裔美国小说家詹姆斯·鲍德温。

He published work by luminaries including Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and James Baldwin.

他出版了钦努阿·阿契贝、渥雷·索因卡、恩古吉和詹姆斯·鲍德温等名人的作品。

Today we tell about James Baldwin, one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

今天我们讲述20世纪最重要的美国作家之一詹姆斯·鲍德温的故事。

James Baldwin was the oldest child in a family of nine. He never knew his biological father.

詹姆斯·鲍德温是九口之家里最大的孩子。他从不认识自己的生父。

James Baldwin faced a similar struggle. He became a preacher in his step-father's church for three years.

詹姆斯·鲍德温面临着相似的挣扎。他在继父的教堂里做了三年的牧师。

The book is about the struggle to accept one's sexuality. James Baldwin faced a similar struggle.

这本书讲述了一个人如何挣扎着接受自己的性取向。詹姆斯·鲍德温 也面临着相似的挣扎。

James Baldwin said he had to write Go Tell It on the Mountain so that he could write everything else.

詹姆斯·鲍德温说，他必须写作《去山上说》，这样他才能写作别的东西。

In considering Nikole, my mind drifts to images of James Baldwin and Nina Simone smoking and smiling in an overly bright den.

想到妮可，我的脑海里就浮现出詹姆斯·鲍德温(James Baldwin)和妮娜·西蒙(Nina Simone)在一个过于明亮的书房里抽烟、微笑的画面。

And so I think I turned to James Baldwin as a way to fill this void, as a way to feel racially conscious.

所以我想我读詹姆斯·鲍德温就是为了填补我的这一空白，激发我的种族意识。

He later became known to the world as James Baldwin.

他后来以詹姆斯·鲍德温 (James Baldwin) 的名字为世人所知。

James Baldwin was born in nineteen twenty-four in New York City. He grew up in a mostly black area of New York called Harlem.

詹姆斯·鲍德温于1924年出生于纽约市。他在纽约一个叫哈莱姆的黑人聚居区长大。

James Baldwin finished high school at about the same time that he realized that he did not want to continue as a church preacher.

詹姆斯·鲍德温高中毕业的同时，意识到自己不想继续当教堂牧师。

And James Baldwin speaks about this often how abusive his stepfather was.

詹姆斯鲍德温经常谈到他的继父是多么的虐待。

James Baldwin was made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor in nineteen eighty-six. He also received many awards in the United States.

1986年，詹姆斯·鲍德温被任命为法国荣誉军团司令。他也获得了美国的很多奖项。

They want to learn about James Baldwin and William Faulkner and about the civil rights movement.

他们想了解詹姆斯鲍德温和威廉福克纳以及民权运动。

This group included some rather famous people: John Updike, James Baldwin, Woody Allen, Saul Bellow, Arthur Miller, and the poet Allen Ginsberg.

这群人包括一些相当有名的人：约翰·厄普代克、詹姆斯·鲍德温、伍迪·艾伦、索尔·贝娄、亚瑟·米勒和诗人艾伦·金斯伯格。

I brought James Baldwin, I brought Walt Whitman, C.S. Lewis. I brought guidebooks to trees, to birds, and what would become his favorite book, the dictionary.

我带来了詹姆斯·鲍德温， 我带来了沃尔特·惠特曼， C. S.刘易斯。 我带了树木、鸟类的指南， 还有后来成为他最喜欢的书的字典。

Play opened on Broadway in 1959 and as James Baldwin wrote " never before in the entire history of the American theatre had so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage."

该剧于1959年在百老汇演出 正如詹姆斯·鲍德温所写：“在整个美国戏剧史上舞台上从未展现过如此多有关黑人生活的真实画面。”

I was trying to answer James Baldwin's call for a profound articulation of the black experience, which he defined as that field of manners and ritual of intercourse that will sustain a man once he has left his father's house.

我试图回应詹姆斯·鲍德温的呼吁，他要求深刻阐述黑人的经历，他把黑人经历定义为一个人一旦离开其父亲的家，就会维持的那种生活的礼仪和交际仪式。