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A new James Baldwin biography asks how the writer’s lovers might’ve shaped him

A new James Baldwin biography asks how the writer’s lovers might’ve shaped him



The scholar Nicholas Boggs has a new perspective on James Baldwin. The new biography Baldwin: A Love Story considers how the writer and Civil Rights leader’s lovers might’ve shaped him. In today’s conversation with NPR’s Michel Martin, Boggs argues Baldwin provided a dynamic model for how we relate to other people – both in platonic and romantic relationships.

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