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Nicholas Boggs: Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Ten Evenings Series
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White Whale Bookstore is proud to be the official bookseller of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Ten Evenings series. Buy Tickets here! Drawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work. 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 alchemized them into novels, essays, and plays that speak truth to power and 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 Harle
Who
- Nicholas BoggsAuthorNicholas Boggs is an American writer. He is the author of the 2025 biography of American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin titled Baldwin: A Love Story. Boggs also co-edited the 2018 reprinting of Little…Photo: Sizzlipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicholas_Boggs_1120626.jpg)
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- Baldwin: A Love StoryNicholas Boggs
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