The title character of that story by this author works through his heroin addiction by playing piano in Creole's jazz band.
In one of this author's stories, the narrator and his wife, Isabel, are grieved when their young daughter Grace dies of polio. The title character of that story by this author works through his heroin addiction by playing piano in Creole's jazz band. In one of this author's novels, the protagonist enjoys wrestling with Brother Elisha, and his stepfather once had an illegitimate son, Royal, with Esther while he was married to Deborah. In that novel by this author of (*) "Sonny's Blues", the wild Roy is the favorite of his father Gabriel, despite the religious epiphany experienced by John Grimes. For 10 points, name this African-American author of Go Tell it on the Mountain.
In one of this author's stories, the narrator and his wife, Isabel, are grieved when their young daughter Grace dies of polio.
James Arthur Baldwin