Author Talk: Nicholas Boggs — Baldwin: A Love Story

About this event

All Adults, College Students, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34). Join us in person or online over Zoom Webinar to hear author Nicholas Boggs speak about his recent bestselling biography of James Baldwin, Baldwin: A Love Story, in celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month! Joining Nicolas in Conversation is author and professor, Jesse McCarthy. After the hour-long talk, Nicholas Boggs will sign copies of Baldwin during a signing facilitated by our local, independent bookseller, Trident Booksellers. 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 (2018), Boggs' research and writing have 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. He was educated at Yale (BA), American University (MFA), and Columbia (PhD). He lives in New York City. Jesse McCarthy is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He is the author of The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War, Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? and a novel, The Fugitivities. His writing on literature, politics, and the arts has appeared in The New York Times, The Washing