Draft that became Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain

The handwritten divisions on James Baldwin’s synposis of Crying Holy, the draft novel that evolved into Go Tell It on the Mountain, offer a look at his early thoughts about structure.

The page pictured above is the first of four; you can find the rest — and much, much more — in the online offerings of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.


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