Tell it On the Mountain.
In one of this man's novels, jazz drummer Rufus Scott commits suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. This author wrote another novel about a man who deceives his fiancée Hella until the title character is guillotined for killing the Paris gay bar owner Guillaume. This author of Another Country and Giovanni's Room also wrote a work divided into two parts, "My Dungeon Shook" and "Down at the Cross," in which he urged racial acceptance and warned of a title conflagration. In one novel by this author, a preacher named Gabriel steals his wife's savings; that novel opens on the fourteenth birthday of the protagonist John Grimes. For 10 points, name this author of The Fire Next Time and Go Tell it On the Mountain.
In one of this man's novels, jazz drummer Rufus Scott commits suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge.
James Baldwin