He calls upon this experience in his most celebrated novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, as well as in the play The Amen Corner. In retrospect, Baldwin identified his time in the church-preparing and delivering several sermons per week-as an important step in his development as a writer, since in this role he was forced to closely consider a wide range of human emotions.
Over the years, Baldwin’s relationship with David would prove tenuous yet formative, since his eventual experience as a Youth Minister in an opposing church was both a result and a defiance of his stepfather’s example as a Baptist preacher. Though his biological father was absent, a Baptist minister named David Baldwin soon became the young author’s stepfather. James Baldwin was born in Harlem in 1924, the grandson of a slave and the eldest of nine children.
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