James Baldwin in London in 1964. A new biography focuses on the author's relationships.

For the first time in 30 years, a definitive biography of James Baldwin has been written, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” by gay independent scholar Nicholas Boggs. The book incorporates new archival ...

In Nicholas Boggs’ lively and vigorously researched biography of James Baldwin, the great writer's search for the source of his art dovetails with his lifelong search for meaningful relationships.

"Not everything that is faced can be changed," James Baldwin famously explained in 1962, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced." At the time the late author, who is profiled in a new biography ...

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.