The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York apparel from Nigeria to Madagascar and

from Nigeria to Madagascar and Morocco to South Africa

growing up in a small

to Charles Taylor’s arrival in Monrovia

None of their standards have any chance for being "right" qualities

Set over the course of four decades and steeped in a rich tradition of American literature informed by Black surrealism

The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York apparel from Nigeria to Madagascar andThe first comprehensive book about Michael Stewart, the young Black artist and model who was the victim of a fatal assault by police in 1983, from Elon Green, the Edgar Award winning author of Last Call. At twenty five years old, Michael Stewart was a young Black aspiring artist, deejay, and model, looking to make a name for himself in the vibrant downtown art scene of the early 1980s New York City. On September 15, 1983, he was brutally beaten by New