Nicholas Boggs’ extensive biography, ‘Baldwin: A Love Story,’ will be published this summer Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital ...

(RNS) — Greg Garrett, a professor at Baylor University, wants to introduce a new generation of readers to the writer of short stories, novels and plays who believed America can do better. (RNS) — Over ...

NPR's Noel King speaks with Eddie Glaude Jr. about his book Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. Eddie Glaude Jr. On His New Book And What America Can Learn From ...

An interviewer once asked James Baldwin if he’d ever write something without a message. “No writer who ever lived,” Baldwin said, “could have written a line without a message.” This is true. People ...

The cover of "The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation" by Anna Malaika Tubbs. (Courtesy) Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on ...

James Baldwin was born 100 years ago, on Aug. 2, 1924, in Harlem Hospital. He wrote in 1955, “I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for this reason, I insist on the ...

Cleveland writer Quartez Harris (right) wrote "Go Tell It" with illustrations by Gordon C. James. The book details James Baldwin's early years in Harlem and his love for reading. “Go Tell It” opens ...

Nicholas Boggs’ extensive biography, ‘Baldwin: A Love Story,’ will be published this summer A new biography of esteemed writer James Baldwin is hitting shelves soon. PEOPLE can exclusively share the ...