Going into the Wreckage and Unearthing James Baldwin’s Great Loves: A Conversation with Nicholas Boggs

In 1985, a year before his death, James Baldwin told Shaun Henderson in an interview conducted in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, his final home, that he didn’t trust his memory, and this was the reason that he never wrote an autobiography. This admission appears early in the prologue of Baldwin: A Love Story, an encyclopedic biography of Baldwin’s work as told through the lens of his intimate relationships, written by Nicholas Boggs.