Baldwin
A Love Story
by Nicholas Boggs
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- First published 2025
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- 9780374721343, 9780374178710
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Sign inDrawing on extensive new archival material, this spellbinding biography reveals how James Baldwin's relationships shaped his work. *A Love Story* tells the overlapping stories of James Baldwin’s most sustaining 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. This biography shows for the first time how Baldwin drew on complex structures within these relationships—geographical, cultural, political, artistic, and erotic—and alchemized them into art that spoke truth to power and had an indelible impact on the Civil Rights Movement and on Black and queer literary history.
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