Nicholas Boggs, currently the inaugural Walter O. Evans Fellow at the Beinecke Library and the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, is also the recipient of a Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship, an NEH Long-Term Fellowship at the NYPL, a Robert and Ina Caro Research/Travel Fellowship from Biographer’s International, a Faculty Fellowship at the NYU Center for Humanities, and a Visiting U.S. Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library.

Boggs is co-editor of James Baldwin’s LITTLE MAN, LITTLE MAN: A Story of Childhood (2018), which Entertainment Weekly called “brilliant, essential” and The New York Times wrote “couldn’t be more timely.” He is currently at work on a biography of James Baldwin forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book will be the first major James Baldwin biography to tell the overlapping stories of his relationships with four pillars of his adult life—his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; his lover and muse, Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and his collaborators, famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and French artist Yoran Cazac.

Twice a fellow at both Yaddo and MacDowell, as well as a Writer-in-Residence at the James Merrill House, Boggs was recently awarded a residential fellowship at Loghaven, where he will be in residence in February 2023. He received his BA from Yale, his MFA from American University, and his Ph.D. from Columbia. He serves on the Board of the NYU Biography Seminar and the Advisory Board of the literary journal The Kenyon Review.

Speaking and workshop topics include the life, work, and legacy of James Baldwin; resurrecting Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man; twentieth and twenty-first century American and African American literature, and narrative non-fiction writing.