Nicholas Boggs is the author of Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of the iconic figure in over three decades, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in August of 2025. He also rediscovered and co-edited a new edition of Baldwin's collaboration with French artist Yoran Cazac, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (2018). A three-time MacDowell Fellow, he is the recipient of a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant as well as fellowships from the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the Scholars-in-Residence program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Gilder Lehrman Center and Beinecke Library at Yale, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the 2024-2025 John Hope Franklin Fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle, North Carolina. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., he received his BA from Yale and his PhD from Columbia, both in English, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. He now resides in New York City.