He found himself an apartment in the artist's district of Greenwich Village, NY and then, in 1948, in part due to the alienation he felt as a gay black man, he moved to Paris.īaldwin's literary reputation bloomed with his semi-autobiographical first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, published in 1953. Yet as he grew older, he moved away from the influence of the church. In his teens, he worked as a Pentecostal preacher, under the influence of his father.
James Baldwin tended to write controversial novels, and Giovanni's Room was definitely controversial when it was published in 1956.īaldwin was born in Harlem, NY in 1924.
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