ARGONAUT BOOKS

An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life. Reviews "The biography of today recoils from stuffing its subject into a straitjacket of interpretation. . . . Instead we find an emphasis on the fragility and provisionality of identity, on performance, on motive being mysterious and many-tentacled. 'Baldwin seemed to be composed of carefully crafted personae, woven like armor,' Zaborowska writes. (Such tact in that 'seemed.')"-Parul Sehgal, New York Times Magazine"Baldwin autho...Read More