Who did James Baldwin love and how did those relationships shape his work? Author and scholar Nicholas Boggs set out to ...

In the first major biography of James Baldwin in over three decades, Nicholas Boggs presents an intimate portrait shaped by the people who inspired him. Boggs traces four of Baldwin's transformative ...

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While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not possible. When Arnold Rampersad’s ...

For the first time in 30 years, a definitive biography of James Baldwin has been written, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” by gay independent scholar Nicholas Boggs. The book incorporates new archival ...