This author described his longtime inability to write about his adopted home of California in the introduction to "Christ Walked Down Market Street." In one of his novels, the hitman Albert Cluveau is hired to kill the black political leader Ned; in another novel by this author, the gift of a radio allows the teacher Grant Wiggins to connect with his student, who has been compared to a hog by his attorney. He claimed that classical music cannot describe the Louisiana State Penitentiary as well as the blues in his collection Mozart and Leadbelly, and wrote about a character who leads a march to Bayonne to protest a segregated water fountain at the age of one hundred and ten. For 10 points, na
This author described his longtime inability to write about his adopted home of California in the introduction to "Christ Walked Down Market Street." In one of his novels, the hitman Albert Cluveau is hired to kill the black political leader Ned; in another novel by this author, the gift of a radio allows the teacher Grant Wiggins to connect with his student, who has been compared to a hog by his attorney. He claimed that classical music cannot describe the Louisiana State Penitentiary as well as the blues in his collection Mozart and Leadbelly, and wrote about a character who leads a march to Bayonne to protest a segregated water fountain at the age of one hundred and ten. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about the falsely convicted Jefferson in his tales of black life in Louisiana, which include The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson Before Dying.
This author described his longtime inability to write about his adopted home of California in the introduction to "Christ Walked Down Market Street."
Ernest James {Gaines}