Nicholas Boggs
Assistant Professor
Humanities TBD
(photo credit: Noah Loof)
Nicholas Boggs is the author of the New York Times bestselling biography, BALDWIN: A Love Story (FSG, 2025), winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Jacqueline
Bograd Weld Award for Biography, the Stonewall/Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award, and
the Randy Shilts Nonfiction Award. It was named a Top Ten Book of 2025 by Time magazine
and The Atlantic, and a New York Times Notable Book of the year. In addition, it was
recognized with an Audie Award for Best Audiobook in History/Biography. Also the co-editor
of Baldwin's collaboration with French artist Yoran Cazac, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (Duke, 2018), Boggs' scholarly writing appears in Callaloo: A Journal of African
Diaspora Arts and Letters and in the anthologies The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin, James Baldwin Now (NYU), and Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin (Duke). He has also published in The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Slate. His work has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the National Humanities Center, the Gilder Lehrman Center and Beinecke Library at
Yale, the Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture, and the Leon Levy Center for Biography, as well as a 2023 Whiting Creative
Nonfiction Grant and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. Educated at Yale (BA), American
University (MFA), and Columbia (PhD), he lives in New York City.