'Baldwin: A Love Story' by Nicholas Boggs

"Love was a crucial subject for James Baldwin," said in The Boston Globe , so it's appropriate that this first major Baldwin biography in 31 years "can be seen as an act of love." Author Nicholas Boggs "has no interest in depicting his subject as Saint Jimmy," but he "comes about as close as anyone has to wrapping his arms around Baldwin, embracing him, if you will, in his entirety." Boggs has organized his book by presenting the life of the revered Harlem-born writer as defined by a string of intimate, mostly nonsexual relationships with four other men, starting with a mentor, the painter Beauford Delaney. Boggs also shows that Baldwin was fiercely committed to the idea that love is the cure for bigotry and hatred, and his book is "a reminder

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