Baldwin: A Love Story
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 12 March 2026
- ISBN 9781526615626
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages720 pages
- Size 234x164x62 mm
- Weight 1032 g
- Language 780
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Long description:
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025
'Virtuosic' Spectator
'Compulsively interesting and beautifully written - there is something to treasure on every page. I absolutely loved it' Zadie Smith
'Illuminating and thrilling ... An exceptional portrayal of this legendary figure' Bernadine Evaristo
'[A] gloriously written and exhaustively researched page-turner' Jacqueline Woodson
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'For me,' wrote James Baldwin in 1959, 'the difficulty is to remain in touch with the private life. The private life, his own and that of others, is the writer's subject - his key and ours to his achievement.'
Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals how profoundly the writer's personal relationships shaped his life and work.
Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews, this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac, whose long-overlooked significance as Baldwin's last great love is explored in these pages for the first time.
Nicholas Boggs shows how Baldwin drew on all the complex forces within these relationships - geographical, cultural, political, artistic, and erotic - and alchemised them into novels, essays and plays that speak truth to power and which had an indelible impact on the civil rights movement and on Black and queer literary history.
Richly immersive, Baldwin: A Love Story follows the writer's creative journey between Harlem, Paris, Switzerland, the southern United States, Istanbul, Africa, the South of France, and beyond. In so doing, it magnifies our understanding of the public and private lives of one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, whose contributions only continue to grow in influence.
