MT. AIRY (WPVI) -- At the historic Sedgwick Theatre, the groundbreaking James Baldwin novel, "Giovanni's Room", will be seen for the first time ever - being adapted with approval from the family.

Nicholas Boggs describes himself as an “accidental biographer,” and his new book, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” as something he fell into. “I don’t know if I should say this,” said Boggs, 51, “but when I ...

"Baldwin: A Love Story" surpasses previous biographies of the author known for works including "Go Tell It on the Mountain." (Anthony Barboza / Getty Images) In Nicholas Boggs’ lively and vigorously ...

Who did James Baldwin love and how did those relationships shape his work? Author and scholar Nicholas Boggs set out to answer these questions in a remarkable new biography of the late American writer ...

Philadelphia’s Quintessence Theatre has produced the only adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1956 novel approved by his estate. Quintessence Theatre Group is staging the first officially sanctioned ...

The scholar Nicholas Boggs has a new perspective on James Baldwin. The new biography Baldwin: A Love Story considers how the writer and Civil Rights leader’s lovers might’ve shaped him. In today’s ...

As a child in Harlem, James Baldwin (1924-1987) hewed to his family’s strict Baptist beliefs and would have known I Corinthians 13, the New Testament’s famous “love chapter,” verse by verse. Nicholas ...

In a 1963 wide-ranging feature published in LIFE magazine, James Baldwin praised the virtues of reading. “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but ...

The book, organized in sections centered around the writer's four great loves, details how Baldwin spent decades wrestling with his own sexuality, racism in the U.S. and abroad and the cost of fame.