AMERICAN ICONS: HOW BALDWIN & BUTLER CHANGED LITERATURE & THE WORLD – NONFICTION
In Baldwin: A Love Story, Nicholas Boggs reveals how profoundly James Baldwin’s personal relationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews, this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin’s most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships, spanning the Black American painter Beauford Delaney to the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac, Baldwin’s long-overlooked last great love. Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. She was the first Black woman to write and publish science fiction at a time, as she noted, when nearly all professional science fiction writers were white men. Her stories warn us about succumbing to fascism, gender-based violence, and climate chaos. And as Susana Morris explains in Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Butler wrote because she felt she must. Moderated by Shaunterria Owens, youth services specialist, North Miami Public Library.
Buy Baldwin: A Love Story – Boggs
Buy Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler – Morris
