Research Catalog

Title

Jim Tully : American writer, Irish rover, Hollywood brawler / Paul J. Bauer and Mark Dawidziak ; foreword by Ken Burns.

Author

Bauer, Paul, 1956-

Publication

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Dawidziak, Mark, 1956-
• Burns, Ken, 1953-

Description

xviii, 355 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

Jim Tully spent most of his teenage yers in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a"road-kid", he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. After six years on the road, he jumped off a railfoad car in Kent, Ohio, with wild aspirations of becoming a writer. After moving to Hollywood, Tully quickly established himself as a major American author. - Book jacket.

Subject

• Tully, Jim
• Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
• Irish Americans > Biography
• Tramps > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-339) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Coins for a dead woman's eyes -- Six years of imprisonment -- Hearts ignorant of homes -- Big rock candy mountain -- The end of the road -- The fire and the ring -- Troubled in heart -- Write or starve -- Emmett Lawler -- Hollywood writer -- The road-kid and the little tramp -- Beggars of life -- One more illusion -- Jarnegan -- Circus parade -- Shanty Irish -- Shadows of men -- Beggars abroad -- Blood on the moon -- Laughter in hell -- Ladies in the parlor -- Return to the ring -- The bruiser -- Biddy Brogan's boy -- The last division -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9781606350768 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1606350765 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011000671

OCLC

• 697277025
• SCSB-12094639

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library