Nicholas Boggs, who rediscovered and co-edited a new edition of James Baldwin’s collaboration with French artist Yoran Cazac, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (2018), is also the author of the literary biography James Baldwin: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025). In addition to three stays at MacDowell, this project has been supported by a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and fellowships from the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Beinecke Library and Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, and the Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg. He lives in Brooklyn.
Portrait by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
