... skills and intelligence to making sure the meaning will not be lost by the reader. He writes on controversial subjects about which "everybody has strong opinions and, even more to the point, deep-rooted feelings" (Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 2, pg. 31). Baldwin finished his long-awaited first book, Go Tell It On The Mountain, during a stay in his companion's Swiss hometown, and published it in 1953. The novel, a largely autobiographical account of ... his teenage years as a preacher in a Harlem storefront church and his ambivalent love-hate relationship with his stepfather, re...

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