{"title":"Nicholas Boggs","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicholas Boggs offers deeply insightful works within the \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e genre, exploring notable lives with nuance and empathy. His writing invites readers to engage closely with the complexities of his subjects, bringing personal stories to life through thoughtful narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThose who appreciate reflective and richly detailed biographies will find Boggs’ work compelling. His books illuminate the human experience, combining careful research with an intimate voice that resonates long after the last page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"baldwin-a-love-story-by-nicholas-boggs-9781526615626","title":"Baldwin: A Love Story","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Notable Books of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Virtuosic' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Compulsively interesting and beautifully written - there is something to treasure on every page. I absolutely loved it' \u003cb\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Illuminating and thrilling... An exceptional portrayal of this legendary figure' \u003cb\u003eBernadine Evaristo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'[A] gloriously written and exhaustively researched page-turner' \u003cb\u003eJacqueline Woodson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘For me,’\u003c\/i\u003e wrote James Baldwin in 1959, \u003ci\u003e‘the difficulty is to remain in touch with the private life. The private life, his own and that of others, is the writer’s subject – his key and ours to his achievement.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaldwin: A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals how profoundly the writer’s personal relationships shaped his life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNicholas Boggs shows how Baldwin drew on all the complex forces within these relationships – geographical, cultural, political, artistic, and erotic – and alchemised them into novels, essays, and plays that speak truth to power and which had an indelible impact on the civil rights movement and on Black and queer literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichly immersive, \u003ci\u003eBaldwin: A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47664153592044,"sku":"9781526615626","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781526615626-baldwin-a-love-story.jpg?v=1779659986"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/nicholas-boggs.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}