Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals how profoundly the writer's personal relationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews, this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships.

Baldwin: A Love Story was named a New York Times notable book of 2025 and a top 10 Book of 2025 by Time and The Atlantic.

Boggs will be in conversation with Professor Dagmawi Woubshet, a James Baldwin scholar and the the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nicholas Boggs is the bestselling author of Baldwin: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) which is currently a finalist for the NBCC's John Leonard Prize and for the PEN/Jacqueline Bogard Weld Award for Biography. It was recently awarded the 2026 Stonewall Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award from the American Library Association. He is also the co-editor of Baldwin's collaboration with French artist Yoran Cazac, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood. The recipient of a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg, and the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he lives in New York.