Cloudsplitter
 Cloudsplitter is a 1998 historical novel by Russell Banks relating the story of abolitionist John Brown.The novel is narrated as a retrospective by John Brown's son Owen Brown from his hermitage in the San Gabriel Mountains of California. His reminiscences are triggered by the reception of an invitation from a Miss Mayo assistant to Oswald Garrison Villard then researching his book John Brown: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston 1910).