"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 ...
James Baldwin believed that America has been lying to itself since its founding. A sharp, funny, and insightful commentator on Black identity and American democracy, he never hesitated to bear witness ...
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.
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.
As a child in Harlem, James Baldwin (1924-1987) hewed to his family’s strict Baptist beliefs and would have known I Corinthians 13, the New Testament’s famous “love chapter,” verse by verse. Nicholas ...
James Baldwin is directly connected to Duke Ellington and John Coltrane in my mind, thanks to the 90-minute documentary James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket. When the Paris section of the film ...
The biographer’s Baldwin: A Love Story unpacks James Baldwin’s life and work through accounts of his four most significant relationships. How did you decide which relationships would mark meaningful ...
The scholar Nicholas Boggs has a new perspective on James Baldwin. The new biography Baldwin: A Love Story considers how the writer and Civil Rights leader’s lovers might’ve shaped him. In today’s ...