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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    June 2017
  • Latest Book:
    February 2021
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Book List in Order: 5 titles




  • An uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with “more layered insight than the page count should allow” (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News). DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. Bu...



  • The first children’s book from multi-genre artist Brontez Purnell, a 2018 winner of the Whiting Award, sweetly portrays a common but rarely narrated childhood experience―having a single parent and taking care of a younger sibling. With illustrati...




  • An irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men despe...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Brontez Purnell has published 5 books.

Brontez Purnell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, 100 Boyfriends, was published in February 2021.

The first book by Brontez Purnell, Since I Laid My Burden Down, was published in June 2017.

No. Brontez Purnell does not write books in series.