After years of renewed scholarly and popular interest in the author and orator James Baldwin (1924-1987) but no new major biography, along comes Nicholas Boggs with this doorstopper, a monument to his energetic research and faithful reading in the voluminous sources now available on, by, and about Baldwin. Boggs had re-discovered Baldwin’s out-of-print children’s book, Little Man, Little Man (1976), as an undergraduate at Yale, bringing out a 2018 edition thanks to collaboration with the book’s illustrator, Yoran Cazac (1938-2005)—largely unknown to Baldwin scholars until Boggs found him, alive—and the blessing of the Baldwin estate, signified in the foreword to Read more