“A young artist. A brutal crime. A city that looked away.”

From Edgar Award-winning author Elon Green comes The Man Nobody Killed, the first comprehensive book on Michael Stewart, a young Black artist and model whose fatal assault by NYC Transit Police in 1983 became a cultural flashpoint.

True crime meets legal drama in this shocking example of failure in our justice system. At 25, Stewart was part of New York City’s thriving downtown art scene. But on September 15, 1983, police beat and hog-tied him for allegedly tagging a subway wall. He died after thirteen days in a coma, his case one of the most widely publicized acts of police brutality at the time.

A case study on police brutality that offers a glimpse into the NYC art scene in the early ’80s, Stewart’s tragic death inspired several high-profile artists. The Man Nobody Killed examines his life, the injustice of his death, and its lasting impact.

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