Baldwin: A Love Story
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Sell my copyAuthor: Nicholas Boggs
Title: Baldwin: A Love Story
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 704
Release Date: 2025-08-19
Details: Drawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work.
Baldwin: A Love Story tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac.
With Nicholas Boggs's rich and subtle narration of Baldwin's public and personal stories and his lucid interpretation of Baldwin's work, this biography shows for the first time how Baldwin drew on complex structures within these relationships-geographical, cultural, political, artistic, and erotic-and alchemized them into art that spoke truth to power and had an indelible impact on the civil rights movement and on Black and queer literary history. In doing so, this book magnifies our understanding of one of the major literary and cultural figures of the twentieth century, whose contributions only continue to grow in influence.
EAN: 9780374178710
Package Dimensions: Height: 9.12 inches, Length: 6.1247909 inches, Weight: 1.00089866948 pounds, Width: 0.999998 inches
Languages: en
