American novelist and activist James Baldwin, 1963. Photo by Mario Jorrin/Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. James Baldwin was an icon who advocated for issues of race, identity, and gender. Join ...
Nicholas Boggs’ extensive biography, ‘Baldwin: A Love Story,’ will be published this summer Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital ...
In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...
An exploration of the long arc of Baldwin’s career, on what would have been the 100th birthday of the author of “Giovanni’s Room” and “The Fire Next Time.” Credit...Bettmann Archive, via Getty Images ...