Baldwin's Go Tell It On The Mountain

In 1953 Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published. His novel focused on the hardships of a young adult growing up in Harlem. Baldwins following novel published, Giovanni's Room, told the story of an American living in Paris. In the novel Giovanni's Room Baldwin brings up the idea of homosexuacallty. Later on in 1955 baldwin wrote his first work about race, Notes of a Native Son. Baldwin based Notes of a Native Son on the black experience in America. In 1963 baldwin wrote a work of essays called The Fire Next Time, which was different then most of his other work. In these essays Baldwin explained what it meant to be black.