Garry Boulard

Garry Boulard is a reporter and author whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune among many other publications.

His essays and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Florida Historical Quarterly, American Quarterly, Louisiana History, Journal of Mississippi History, Alabama Review and Journal of Ethnic Studies.

Boulard saw his first story appear in the Wyoming Advocate, a Michigan weekly, in the fall of 1976 when he was 22 years old. From 1978 to 1979 he was a police reporter for the New Observer in Crossett, Arkansas. He worked as a political reporter from 1980 to 1981 for the Daily Sentry News in Slidell, Louisiana.

From 1981 to 1983 Boulard was a staff writer for the Tulanian, the quarterly magazine published by Tulane University, deciding to become a freelance writer in 1983.

Since 1983 he has seen the publication of his first book, Just a Gigolo--the Life and Times of Louis Prima, published by the Center for Louisiana Studies in 1989 and re-published by the University of Illinois Press in 2002.

In 1998 Pelican Publishing released Boulard's Huey Long Invades New Orleans, a book exploring the explosive relationship between the legendary Kingfish and the Democratic machine of New Orleans, otherwise known as the Old Regulars.

In 2006, Boulard authored The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce, which takes a unique look at a discredited former president who emerged during the Civil War as a defender of Civil Liberties.

Boulard's most recent book was published in the spring of 2015: The Worst President: The Story of James Buchanan, a work that takes a look at the failed Buchanan presidency with a special focus on the 15th president's final pre-Civil War months in office.