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- ISBN 9781803096650
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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One man's life unfolds into a memoir of the defining cultural figures of the mid-twentieth century and beyond.
I Never Made Love with James Baldwin is a dazzling memoir told through a succession of attorney Stanley Cohen's vivid encounters with some of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century and beyond. Moving between America, Europe, and Asia, Cohen recounts moments shared with artists, writers, jurists, and financiers, including Alexander Calder, Joseph Heller, Robert Caro, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Yehuda Hanani, and members of the Rothschild family. These figures appear not as distant icons but as sharp, human presences—brilliant, eccentric, generous, and flawed. Cohen’s life unfolds like a performance, shaped less by planning than by intensity: conversations, friendships, arguments, and coincidences that flare briefly and leave lasting marks. With wit, candor, and an eye for the telling detail, he captures a vast social and creative network spanning the mid-twentieth century to the present. The result is an intimate, unconventional portrait of an exceptional life and of the people who lit its path.
Born in the Bronx, New York, to a family of modest means, Stanley Cohen was required to make his own way as a teenager. He made his first trip around the world as a merchant seaman. After managing a nightclub in Yokohama, he obtained his law degree from Harvard University and had a distinguished career as an attorney in Paris, representing many prominent personalities.
