Author Spotlight: Conor Grennan

This week we would like to feature Conor Grennan, author of the newly released memoir, Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal.

Little Princes follows Conor Grennan’s adventure through war-torn Nepal where after volunteering at the Little Princes Children’s Home in the village of Godawari, he realizes the unsettling truth about how children ended up in the orphanage.  In remote mountainous parts of Nepal, parents unknowingly surrendered boys and girls to con men and traffickers after paying large sums of money.  Parents had hoped that their children would be safe from Maoist insurgents forcibly recruiting members to revolt in the area’s civil war.  It was learning this horrifying truth that triggered Conor Grennan to take action by leading a quest to reunite the lost children of Nepal with their families.

After volunteering in Godawari at the Little Princes Children’s Home in 2004, Conor Grennan returned to launch Next Generation Nepal (NGN), a nonprofit organization dedicated to reconnecting trafficked children with their families in postwar Nepal.  See more about Next Generation Nepal in the video posted below.

Pop Culture Madness is featuring an excerpt of the first chapter of Little Princes. Take a look to get a feel for the surroundings that set the stage for this truly memorable and touching story.

Conor Grennan is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the NYU Stern School of Business.  He currently resides in Connecticut with his wife and son.  Little Princes (William Morrow) is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

For more information about Conor Grennan and Next Generation Nepal, visit nextgenerationnepal.org and join the community on Facebook.

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