A monumental new biography of James Baldwin was published this summer, in coordination with the centennial of his birth. Nicholas Boggs’s Baldwin: A Love Story traces Baldwin’s prolific career and ...

"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 ...

“I can’t breathe,” James Baldwin told his assistant Zeynep Oral back in 1961, “I have to look from the outside.” Outside meant Istanbul, the city to which the American writer and civil rights activist ...

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

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.

Gay Black writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) seems to be everywhere: TikTok memes, social media hashtags, Raoul Peck’s 2016 award-winning documentary, “I Am Not Your Negro,” Princeton University’s ...