10 Facts About James Baldwin’s ‘Giovanni’s Room’
James Baldwindefied categorization . His first novel , Go recount It on the Mountain , was partly establish on his adolescence in Harlem in the 1930s and mark him as a promising writer of inglorious fiction — a label he quickly eschew . For his next novel , Giovanni ’s Room , he drew from his experience as a gay man to explore homosexuality and masculinity through the perspective of white characters ....