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Paul Darcy Boles was an American author, radio program director and advertising writer. He was born on March 5, 1916, in Ashley, Indiana, and passed away on May 4, 1984, in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] He attended Northwestern University, but was "kicked out [for] writ[ing] a satire on the Establishment" in the school humor magazine.[2] His more than 150 short stories[3] appeared in many American and European periodicals, including Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Saturday Evening Post,[1] Playboy, and Cosmopolitan.
Boles went to grade school in northwest Indiana and high school in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, which is clearly recognizable in his book Glenport, Illinois. His first book, The Streak, is set in southern Europe, where he lived and traveled after high school, and his second book, The Beggars in the Sun, takes place in Mobile, Alabama, where Boles worked for a time.[4] The rights to The Streak were subsequently sold to an unnamed Hollywood personality.[5] His books were reviewed by the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Journal, and many other publications. Rex Lardner stated "he writes fine, exciting and often moving prose."[6] It was said Boles' books are "stamped with the hallmark of integrity".[7] He was sued for plagiarism by a person who had hired him to rework a novel they wrote,[8] but Boles was acquitted of the charges.
Although they differ widely in subject matter and setting, Boles said of his books: "All deal in some way with the individual experiencing something, not against the world, but in spite of it".[3]
Awards and Memberships
[edit]- Freedom Foundation citation, 1957, for Deadline[1]
- Friends of American Writers Literature Award, 1959, for Parton's Island[9]
- University of Indiana Writers' Conference Award, 1969, for A Million Guitars and Other Stories [1]
- Georgia Writers' Association Literary Achievement Award for fiction, 1969
- Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists award, for The Limner, 1975
- PEN
- Authors Guild
Novels
[edit]- The Streak, Macmillan, 1953
- The Beggars in the Sun, Macmillan, 1954
- Glenport, Illinois, Macmillan, 1956
- Deadline, Macmillan, 1957
- Parton's Island, (self-illustrated), Macmillan, 1958
- The Limner, Crowell, 1975 (Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection), published in England as Loving Letty, 1976, and as Der Wandermaler in German, 1975
- The Mississippi Run, Crowell, 1977 (Doubleday Book Club selection)
- Glory Day, Random House, 1979
Short Stories and Collections
[edit]- A Million Guitars and Other Stories, Little, Brown, 1967
- I Thought You Were a Unicorn and Other Stories, Little, Brown, 1971
- Night Watch, Peachtree Publishers, 1980 (also a radio play for National Public Radio)
Non-Fiction
[edit]- (contributor) The Living Novel: A Symposium, Granville Hicks, editor, Macmillan, 1958
- Storycrafting, Writer's Digest Books, Cincinnati, OH, 1984
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Kennedy, Shawn G. (6 May 1984). "Paul Darcy Boles, a Novelist, Dies in Atlanta Hospital at 68". New York Times.
- ^ Coogler, Edith Hills (4 January 1971). "Writer Shares His Know-how". The Atlanta Journal: 6-B.
- ^ a b Bennett, Tom (4 May 1984). "Paul Darcy Boles, age 68, novelist, short story writer [obituary]". The Atlanta Journal: 48.
- ^ "Paul Darcy Boles". Press release. The Macmillan Company. 1954.
- ^ Diehl, Bill (12 November 1953). "Movies Buy Atlantan's First Novel". Atlanta Constitution: 21.
- ^ Lardner, Rex (23 August 1953). "Daredevil Champion". The New York Times: Book Reviews p. 19.
- ^ Cavendish, Henry (11 May 1958). "Offshore Paradise". The New York Times: Book Reviews p. 28.
- ^ Scott, Peter (13 June 1982). "Atlanta author faces hearing on plagiarism charge". Atlanta Constitution.
- ^ "Literature Awards" (PDF). FAW Chicago. Friends of American Writers. Retrieved 31 October 2024.