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Nicholas Boggs "Baldwin: A Love Story"
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Nicholas Boggs chats with Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Baldwin: A Love Story.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
Why Nicholas Boggs structured the biography around Baldwin’s four great loves rather than chronology.
Baldwin’s frank acknowledgment that his novels were driven by autobiographical impulses gave Boggs rare biographical licence to connect fiction to life without making reductive one-to-one correlations between characters and real people.
Retracing Baldwin’s footsteps to Corsica, Istanbul and the south of France proved…
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