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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

My guest today, award-winning writer Carvel Wallace, didn't begin writing until he was 40 years old.

It started with an impassioned Facebook post and pretty quickly turned into a full-fledged career,

writing profiles of musicians and athletes and and pretty quickly turned into a full-fledged career,

writing profiles of musicians and athletes and politicians

for big name publications like the New York Times magazine,

Rolling Stone, and the New Yorker.

His ability to delve into the interior lives of his subjects even caught the eye of

NBA star Andre Iguidella, who tapped Wallace to co-write the sixth man, which chronicles Iguidela's basketball career.

Now Carvel Wallace is delving into his own life.

Another word for love is the name of his new memoir

and it starts with Wallace at seven years old when he and his

mother were unhoused for a year bouncing from place to place sometimes sleeping in their car.

That instability will become a hallmark of Wallace's life,

growing up with and without his mother in Western Pennsylvania and D.C. in Los Angeles.

He chronicles that experience as well as his addictions becoming a parent and coming into his own as a queer black man.

Carvel Wallace, welcome to Fresh Air.

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