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-o
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