Speaker Series: Nicholas Boggs

Nicholas Boggs is the New York Times bestselling author of Baldwin: A Love Story, 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.

Nicholas appears courtesy of the Key West Literary Seminar.

Date: January 12, 2026
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Key West Public Library Palm Garden, 700 Fleming Street

All speaker series events begin at 6:00 p.m. Speaker Series talks are free. Seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis. Gates open at 5:30. We will make every effort to seat everyone. In case of rain, the event will be held inside the library.

Free Event.

You may also like the following events from Friends of the Key West Library:

• Next month, 6th December, 10:00 am, December's Book Sale in the Palm Garden in Key West
• Happening on, 3rd January, 10:00 am, January's Book Sale in the Palm Garden in Key West
• Happening on, 26th January, 06:00 pm, Speaker Series: Sarah Stewart Taylor in Key West

Also check out other Arts events in Key West, Literary Art events in Key West, Workshops in Key West.