Lgbtq biographies

Anne Hull is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Her debut memoir, Through the Groves, about coming-of-age and coming-out in Florida in the s, will be released by Holt in June.

Maybe for some, being asked to name their 10 favorite LGBTQ memoirs of all time might be a breezy exercise. I found it next to impossible, for two reasons. One, the sheer number of extraordinary and distinctive memoirs by queer writers. Two, certain characters in queer novels have earned such a permanent place in our collective minds that it’s hard to distinguish who’s real and who’s not. Carol in The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, Little Dog in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Isaiah and Samuel in Robert Jones Jr.’s The Prophets, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar in Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain,” David in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Molly Bolt in Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle, Celie in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Jess in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues—all are icons, each so lifelike they transcend the minor technicality of actually being fictitious.

But rules are rules. Each of the 10 memoi

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