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Baldwin: A Love Story

by Nicholas Boggs

Baillie Gifford · 2026 · Longlist
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Bloomsbury CircusBiography & MemoirNonfiction720 pagesISBN 9781526615626

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Baillie Gifford Prize2026Longlist

About This Book

The first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, structured around the intimate and artistic relationships that shaped his life and work: Beauford Delaney, Lucien Happersberger, Engin Cezzar, and Yoran Cazac. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2026.

About the Author

Nicholas BoggsAmerican

Nicholas Boggs is an American writer and independent scholar. Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, draws on newly uncovered archival material and original interviews. It was an instant New York Times bestseller, a TIME and Atlantic top-ten book of 2025, won the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bogard Weld Award, and was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2026.

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