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

A reflection on the value of James Baldwin’s fiction.

"In 1970 James Baldwin and Margaret Mead met for an extraordinary seven-and-a-half-hour discussion about race and society. Mead brought her knowledge of racism as practiced in remote societies around ...

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

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 ...

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.