"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 ...

"This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'This morning, this evening, so soon : James Baldwin and the voices of queer resistance,' presented by the National Portrait Gallery, ...

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.

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 ...

In 1987, American author James Baldwin died in Saint Paul de Vence, France, at age 63. As a child in Harlem, James Baldwin (1924-1987) hewed to his family’s strict Baptist beliefs and would have known ...

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 ...