Nicholas Boggs wins the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

We are thrilled to announce that Nicholas Boggs' biography Baldwin: A Love Story is the winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.

The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of biography. This prize of $5,000 goes to the author of a distinguished work published in the United States during the previous calendar year. The winning title is considered by the judges to be a work of exceptional literary, narrative, and artistic merit, based on scrupulous research.

The winner was announced on 1st April 2026.