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.

Nicholas Boggs’s “Baldwin: A Love Story” is many things at once. It’s a comprehensive biography of James Baldwin. It’s a nimble excavation of Baldwin’s work, filled with astute literary analysis of ...

Who did James Baldwin love and how did those relationships shape his work? Author and scholar Nicholas Boggs set out to answer these questions in a remarkable new biography of the late American writer ...