One story by this author begins with an algebra teacher reading in the paper about his brother being
One story by this author begins with an algebra teacher reading in the paper about his brother being caught in a heroin bust, and ends with the narrator's brother playing jazz piano in a Greenwich Village club. This author of the story "Sonny's Blues" included "Down at the Cross" and a letter to his nephew, "My Dungeon Shook," in his essay collection The Fire Next Time. In one of this author's novels, the born-again preacher Gabriel denies that he fathered Royal in an affair, and fourteen-year-old John Grimes has a vision on the threshing-floor of a Harlem church. For 10 points, identify this African-American author of Go Tell It on the Mountain.
One story by this author begins with an algebra teacher reading in the paper about his brother being caught in a heroin bust, and ends with the narrator's brother playing jazz piano in a Greenwich Village club.
James Baldwin