The oldest of nine children, he, like his character John Grimes, did not always get along with his very religious stepfather.
The oldest of nine children, he, like his character John Grimes, did not always get along with his very religious stepfather. With the help of Richard Wright, he moved to Paris in 1948, where he wrote his second novel Giovanni's Room. Active in the Civil Rights Movement, his essays about race relations were collected in books like Going to Meet the Man and The Fire Next Time. For ten points, identify this American writer of Go Tell it on the Mountain and Notes of a Native Son.
The oldest of nine children, he, like his character John Grimes, did not always get along with his very religious stepfather.
James {Baldwin}