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SUMMARY:Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Ten Evenings Series: Nicholas Boggs — Baldwin: A Love Story
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\n\n\nBaldwin: 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.\n\n\n\nNicholas 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 Harlem\, Paris\, Switzerland\, the southern United States\, Istanbul\, Africa\, the South of France\, and beyond. In so doing\, it magnifies our understanding of the public and private lives of one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century\, whose contributions only continue to grow in influence. \nNicholas Boggs was an undergraduate when he discovered James Baldwin’s out-of-print children’s book\, Little Man\, Little Man: A Story of Childhood\, in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. After he tracked down its illustrator\, the French artist Yoran Cazac\, he went on to coedit an acclaimed new edition of the book in 2018. His writing has also been anthologized in The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin\, James Baldwin Now\, and Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin. He is the recipient of a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Beinecke Library and Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale\, the Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program\, and the National Humanities Center\, as well as residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. He received his BA in English from Yale\, his MFA in creative writing from American University\, and his PhD in English from Columbia. Born and raised in Washington\, DC\, he lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/pittsburgh-arts-lectures-ten-evenings-series-nicholas-boggs-baldwin-a-love-story/
LOCATION:Carnegie Music Hall\, 4440 Forbes Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15222\, United States
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