JAMES BALDWIN. A LOVE STORY

Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals how profoundly the writers personal rel ationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews, this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwins 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 Turki...[Read more]