For ten points, identify this civil rights activist and writer, author of Notes from a Native Son, Giovanni's Room, and Go
He followed in his stepfather's footsteps and became a preacher at age fourteen but left the church for bohemian Greenwich Village just three years later. He drew on these experiences for his first novel, and he recounted his meeting with Elijah Muhammad in The Fire Next Time. For ten points, identify this civil rights activist and writer, author of Notes from a Native Son, Giovanni's Room, and Go Tell it on the Mountain.
He followed in his stepfather's footsteps and became a preacher at age fourteen but left the church for bohemian Greenwich Village just three years later.
James {Baldwin}