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Garrard Conley (born 1984 or 1985) is an American author and LGBTQ activist known for his autobiography Boy Erased: A Memoir, recounting his childhood as part of a fundamentalist family in Arkansas that enrolled him in conversion therapy.
Garrard Conley [ˈɡærədˈkɑnli] is the author of the New York Times Best Selling memoir Boy Erased (Penguin 2016), now a major motion picture. Boy Erased was nominated for a Lamdba Literary Award and was featured as a top 2016 nonfiction book by O Magazine, Buzzfeed Books, and Shelf Awareness, among others. It has now been translated in ...
Nov 11, 2018 · Garrard Conley's memoir of growing up as the gay son of a conservative Baptist preacher has been made into a movie. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin.
Garrard Conley is an American writer and queer rights activist, best known for his autobiography "Boy Erased: A Memoir". Conley was born as a son of a Southern Baptist preacher and former car salesman and grew up in Arkansas, first in Cherokee Village and then in Mountain Home.
Boy Erased: A Memoir is a 2016 memoir by Garrard Conley recounting his childhood in a fundamentalist Arkansas family that enrolled him in conversion therapy.
May 27, 2024 · The author Garrard Conley has spent his life exploring the overlap between Christianity and sexuality. His bestselling memoir "Boy Erased" was adapted into a 2018 film about undergoing conversion...
Mar 26, 2024 · Garrard Conley makes his fiction debut with a story about a queer affair between a reverend and a doctor in Puritan New England.
Mar 26, 2024 · Garrard Conley’s ravishing novel embodies literature’s power to reach deep crevices that official accounts cannot, to water the dry earth of early American history and transform it into fertile gardens not only of the mind, but of the glorious, imperfect human spirit.
Jun 19, 2018 · Conley had been outed to his parents by his rapist after being assaulted in college. But, to his Baptist preacher father and his mother, the crime was in him being gay.
Mar 26, 2024 · A solid historical novel from Garrard Conley. Nathaniel Whitfield, a preacher famous for ‘awakening’ as many as 500 people to God at once, takes 200 of his closest followers to start a village in the New World called Cana.
