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 A love story” is a sympathetic biography, the first major one in 30 years, of acclaimed black gay writer james baldwin And abroad and the cost of fame
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Through baldwin's extensive correspondence with friends and lovers and ample research, boggs writes.
While baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not possible.
A love story by nicholas boggs farrar, straus and giroux 720 pages, $36 In 2017, the new york public library’s schomburg center for research in black culture acquired the papers of author and gay icon james baldwin Consisting of more than 81 boxes of material, much of it previously unavailable, this archive chronicles baldwin’s life from the age of fourteen in 1938 to his death.
