text: This author created a character who stares at a picture of his father's first wife Deborah before ascending a hill in Central Park and imagining that Broadway symbolizes his life to come.
full_question: This author created a character who stares at a picture of his father's first wife Deborah before ascending a hill in Central Park and imagining that Broadway symbolizes his life to come. In a story by this man, a postcard from Greece informs the narrator that his jazz-playing brother is still alive, though his brother's heroin usage has estranged them. A boy reflects on having "sinned his hand," or masturbated, in a novel by this man in which that boy has a spiritual awakening at the Temple of the Fire Baptized. In that novel by this man, Gabriel is revealed not to be the true father of the protagonist, John Grimes. For 10 points, name this African- American author who wrote "Sonny's Blues" and Go Tell It on the Mountain.
first_sentence: This author created a character who stares at a picture of his father's first wife Deborah before ascending a hill in Central Park and imagining that Broadway symbolizes his life to come.
raw_answer: James Baldwin [James Arthur Baldwin]