His childhood and his relationship with his stepfather was the basis for his most famous novel, Got Tell it on the Mountain. ... From novels to non-fiction to poetry, Baldwin got a taste of many different forms and styles of writing. ... While in Paris, Baldwin became close friends with many people of African decent and Algerian immigrants. ... Baldwin's most controversial novel is Giovanni's Room published in 1956. ... The novel takes place in Paris; the main character, like Baldwin, goes to Paris to both escape and to find himself. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

According to another important historical context, blacks were immigrant from the South. ... According to Black American Literature Forum "Walter White was something of a renaissance man, writing two novels and promoting the arts among black peopleHis two novels were written during the 1920s, and his greatest effort to help black writers and artists came during that decade, tooWhite's efforts on behalf of such writers as Langton Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude Mckay, and Nella Larsen were important to their careers" (Huggins 154). As we can see, Whites wrote two novels to promote...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hughes spent a lifetime illuminating that world through poems, stories, novels, lectures, and various other literary forms - with virtuosity and understanding so unmatched that he has been unofficially granted the title as Negro Poet Laureate and Dean of Negro Writers in America. ... There he attended Central High School, and met newly arrived immigrant children from Poland, Russian, and Germany. ...

• Word Count: 1325
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• Grade Level: High School