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Nicholas Boggs

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Biography

Nicholas Boggs is a writer and independent scholar. He rediscovered and coedited a new edition of James Baldwin’s out-of-print collaboration with the French artist Yoran Cazac, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (2018), and his writing has been anthologized in The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin and James Baldwin Now. He is the recipient of a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Beinecke Library and Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, the Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program, and the National Humanities Center, as well as residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. He received his BA in English from Yale, his MFA in creative writing from American University, and his PhD in English from Columbia. Born and raised in Washington, DC, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. His biography Baldwin: A Love Story will be published in August 2025.

Years Attended

2025 Adult’s Festival Participant

Nicholas Boggs

Speaker
USA
Events Featuring Nicholas Boggs
2025
Workshop: Writing Lives: The Self and Others
Festival Programme Event
Workshop Event
Event Date: May 3, 2025 @ 10:00 am
1st Floor Seminar Room