NEW YORK, July 14 (UPI) -- Author James Baldwin will be honored with a 37-cent stamp issued July 23 in Harlem with ceremonies involving a cross-section of the black cultural community.
Baldwin, who died in 1987 at the age of 67, was best known for novels such as "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Another Country" and collections of essays including "Nobody Knows My Name." His works explored race relations, sexual issues, and cultural subjects.
The Postal Service announced Tuesday that poets Maya Angelou and Imamu Amiri Baraka will pay tribute to Baldwin at first-day of-issue ceremonies at Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Others scheduled to participate are actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, singers Odetta and Jerry Dixon, and the Boys Choir of Harlem. Actor Avery Brooks will act as master of ceremonies.
The stamp bears a portrait of Baldwin posed against a Harlem street scene. The author also was identified with Greenwich Village, where he served his literary apprenticeship, and with Paris and the south of France where he lived and worked for many years.
