The scholar Nicholas Boggs has a new perspective on James Baldwin. The new biography Baldwin: A Love Story considers how the ...

The book, organized in sections centered around the writer's four great loves, details how Baldwin spent decades wrestling with his own sexuality, racism in the U.S. and abroad and the cost of fame.

"Baldwin: A Love Story" surpasses previous biographies of the author known for works including "Go Tell It on the Mountain." (Anthony Barboza / Getty Images) In Nicholas Boggs’ lively and vigorously ...

Nicholas Boggs describes himself as an “accidental biographer,” and his new book, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” as something he fell into. “I don’t know if I should say this,” said Boggs, 51, “but when I ...

MT. AIRY (WPVI) -- At the historic Sedgwick Theatre, the groundbreaking James Baldwin novel, "Giovanni's Room", will be seen for the first time ever - being adapted with approval from the family.

The radical lives of James Baldwin. 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 ...

When I received my reviewer’s advanced copy of Nicholas Boggs’ epic biography of James Baldwin, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” several months in advance of the Aug. 19 publication date, I was determined to ...

James Baldwin in London in 1964. A new biography focuses on the author's relationships.

In Nicholas Boggs’ lively and vigorously researched biography of James Baldwin, the great writer’s search for the source of his art dovetails with his lifelong search for meaningful relationships.