Although only a small sample for comparison, there are specific points in this story where the lives of Sonny and his brother coincide with those of James Baldwin; the location of the story dates from his childhood; the fact that the narrator's name is never mentioned and that the other characters are referred to by their family position suggests Baldwin's feelings about his place in his own family; as the eldest child and the only one in the house who doesn't share his biological parents. If there were still doubts about the fact that a writer draws inspiration from his own life to create his stories, James Baldwin himself declared: “One writes from one thing only: one's own experience. » (Baldwin)Sonny's Blues is the story of a man and his brother who struggle to rebuild their relationship after a long breakup; it opens with the man learning that Sonny was arrested for heroin possession, something Baldwin was surely exposed to growing up in Harlem and later living in Greenwich Village. While Sonny is imprisoned, the man loses his daughter prompting him to write to his brother, they resume their cooperation....