Join First Light at Harry Ransom Center for a reading by author Nicholas Boggs, from his newest book, Baldwin: A Love Story.

Nicholas Boggs is the New York Times bestselling author of Baldwin: A Love Story (2025), the first major biography of the iconic figure in over three decades. He also co-edited a new edition of Baldwin's collaboration with French artist Yoran Cazac, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (2018). He is the recipient of a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and 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, as well as residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell.

Most recently, he was the 2024-2025 John Hope Franklin Fellow at the National Humanities Center. 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.

Register to attend through the HRC event page linked above.