Author Talk: Nicholas Boggs — Baldwin: A Love Story

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 Washington Post , The Nation , and The New York Review of Books . He also serves as an editor at the magazines The Point and Public Books . Accessibility Notice : We strive to make our events accessible.

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