Nicholas Boggs, writer and assistant professor of English and creative writing at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin.

[Press release]

Boggs is honored for Baldwin: A Love Story, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2025. It is the first major biography of American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin in more than three decades.

The award ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber. The event will feature remarks by the winner and a reception in the Old Capitol Rotunda. Both the ceremony and reception are open to the public.

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