Nicholas Boggs (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Nicholas Boggs is a writer and independent scholar who received his BA from Yale University and his PhD in English from Columbia University. He is the coeditor, with Jennifer DeVere Brody, of a new edition of James Baldwin’s collaboration with French artist Yoran Cazac, Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood (Duke, 2018). His scholarly work has appeared in Callaloo, The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin, James Baldwin Now (NYU), and is forthcoming in The James Baldwin Review and Speculative Light: The Arts of James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney (Duke). His writing and research have been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the Whiting Foundation, the Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Gilder Lehrman Center and Beinecke Library at Yale. His literary biography, Baldwin: A Love Story, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US, Bloomsbury UK, and Editions Seuil in France.

Selected Publications

• Boggs, Nicholas. “Baldwin/Delaney/Cazac.” In Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin, edited by Amy J. Elias. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Forthcoming.
• Baldwin, James, and Yoran Cazac. Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood. Edited by Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.
• Boggs, Nicholas. “Baldwin and Yoran Cazac’s ‘Child’s Story for Adults.’” In The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin, edited by Michele Elam, 118–132. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• Boggs, Nicholas. “A Grammar of Little Manhood: Ralph Ellison and the Queer Little Man at Chehaw Station.” Callaloo 35, no. 1 (2000): 245–66.