Biographer Nicholas Boggs is one of two winners of the inaugural National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Long-Term Fellowships at the New York Public Library. Boggs is working on a biography with the working title James Baldwin in Love. The fellowships support advanced research at the library’s Center for Research in the Humanities. Application information for the next fellowship cycle will be available in the fall.

In addition, the NEH has also awarded money to 10 biographers and documentary filmmakers in its latest round of grants:

• Henry Fetter for The Nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court in 1916: The First “Modern” Confirmation Battle
• Julia Gaffield for Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the Haitian Revolution
• Center for Independent Documentary, Inc. for The Disappearance of Miss Scott and My Underground Mother
• Robin Bernstein for The Trials of William Freeman (1824–1847): A Story of Murder, Race, and America’s First Industrial Prison
• Sheila Bernard for “Bring Judgment Day”: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies
• New York Foundation for the Arts for the documentary Everything Seemed Possible: Luis Muñoz Marín and the Making of Modern Puerto Rico
• Laura Snyder for a biography of Oliver Sacks
• Rachel Swarns for The 272: The Story of the Enslaved Families Who Fueled the Growth of Georgetown University and the Catholic Church
• Daniel Frick for America’s Contrarian Sage: Richard Nixon and the Invention of the Modern Post-Presidency
• Cassandra Good for First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America

You can see all of the recent grant winners here and learn more about all NEH grant programs here.