鲍德温(Janes Arthur Badwin)是继兰士顿·休斯、理查德·怀特和拉夫·艾理森之后又一位有影响的美国黑人作家。他于一九二四年生在美国纽约市哈莱姆黑人聚居区。母亲在他三岁时与从西部新奥尔良到纽约来的穷牧师大卫·鲍德温结婚。养父古板、严厉、憎恨白人,鲍德温对他的感情是复杂的,他理解养父的痛苦,又和他有许多矛盾、冲突,对他既敬畏,又憎恨,在鲍德温心目中,这个穷牧师就是贫苦黑人男子痛苦的象征。一 Janes Arthur Badwin is another influential Afro-American author after Ranks Hughes, Richard White, and Ralph Alison. He was born in 1924 in the black community of Haarlem, New York City. When he was three years old, his mother married poor priest David Baldwin, who came to New York from New Orleans Western. Baldwin’s feelings for him were complicated. As he understood his father’s pain, he had many contradictions and conflicts with him. He feared and hated him. In Baldwin’s mind, this poor pastor is poor Symbol of black man suffering. one