Who wrote the novels 'Go Tell It On The Mountain' and 'Giovanni's Room'?
Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel) Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel) Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin. It tells the story of John Grimes, an intelligent teenager in 1930s Harlem, and his relationship to his family and his church. The novel also reveals the back stories of John's mother, his biological father, and his violent, religious fanatic step-father, Gabriel Grimes. The novel focuses on the role of the Pentecostal Church in the lives of African-Americans, as a negative source of repression and moral hypocrisy and also as a positive source of inspiration and community. In 1998,
Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel) the Modern Library ranked "Go Tell It on the Mountain" 39th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. "Time Magazine" included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". Baldwin makes several references to the Bible in "Go Tell It on the Mountain," most importantly to the story of Ham, Noah’s son who saw his father naked one day. Noah consequently cursed Ham’s son Canaan to become the servant of Noah’s other sons. Baldwin refers to several other people and stories from the Bible, at one point alluding to