In one of this author's novels, Officer Bell falsely pins the rape of a Puerto Rican woman named Victoria Rogers on Fonny.
In one of this author's novels, Officer Bell falsely pins the rape of a Puerto Rican woman named Victoria Rogers on Fonny. In addition to that novel narrated by Tish Rivers, this man wrote a novel whose protagonist abandons his wife Hella to go to Nice, where he has an affair with a sailor. The title character of that novel by this man is executed for murdering the bar owner Guillaume, ending his (*) homosexual affair with the protagonist. He also created a character who fathered an illegitimate son named Royal with Esther but marries Elizabeth, who gives him a stepson who has a glossolalic religious experience on his fourteenth birthday. For 10 points, name this creator of Gabriel and John Grimes, the African-American author of If Beale Street Could Talk, Giovanni's Room, and Go Tell it on the Mountain.
In one of this author's novels, Officer Bell falsely pins the rape of a Puerto Rican woman named Victoria Rogers on Fonny.
James Arthur Baldwin