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A 4 page paper which examines how the events in James Baldwin’s personal life influenced his first novel. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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universal respectability for this proverbial social square peg. Baldwins life was the classic study of an outcast desperately seeking acceptance. When he couldnt attain it in his home
country, he sought it in Europe and later in life finally found what he had been searching for in France. For Baldwin, the line between life and art was
virtually indistinguishable, but this is not altogether surprising since as the late playwright Arthur Miller once noted, one cannot create from nothing. All art is somehow based either consciously
or subconsciously on real-life experiences. Many contemporary critics regard James Baldwins first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, first published in 1953, as his finest work, which not
coincidentally, is also "his most autobiographical" (Allen 29). Go Tell It on the Mountain is a free-flowing work comprised of flashbacks, church worship, and family discord that just happens to
coincide with protagonist, Harlem resident John Grimes fourteenth birthday in March of 1935. The young Grimes "bears a striking resemblance to James Baldwin," and the novels title refers to
the title of a popular Baptist spiritual (Gounard 173). The church featured in the text, is actually little more than a converted storeroom that features the angry sermons of
the troubled preacher Gabriel Grimes, Johns father. According to critic Brooke Allen, "Anyone familiar with the fiction and nonfiction of James Baldwin is aware that the formative influence upon
his life and career was his stepfather" (29). David Baldwin was born in New Orleans, the child of a mother who had been a one-time slave, and was the
quintessential angry young man. He relocated to New York seeking opportunity but found only disappointment and manual labor that fueled is frustration and rage, which often took the form
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