Allan Bernard Bosworth (July 6, 1925 – May 3, 1990), using the pen-name J. Allan Bosworth, was an American author of children's adventure books.[1] His father, Allan Rucker Bosworth, was also a writer.

Bosworth was born in San Diego, California in July 1925. He began writing while still a radioman aboard USS Missouri. World War II had just ended, and the ship was on her long voyage home. A native Californian, he returned to San Francisco and took a job at the Chronicle. Ten years later, having published two novels and a few dozen short stories, he left the newspaper to begin writing on a full-time basis.[2] He lived in Salem, Virginia, the setting for All the Dark Places.

His best-known books are White Water, Still Water, about a boy stranded downriver by his raft, and All the Dark Places, about a boy lost in an Appalachian cave.[3] White Water, Still Water was included by School Library Journal as one of the 26 best books of spring in 1966.[2][4] Before developing the wilderness adventure theme, Bosworth wrote Voices in the Meadow, a fable of meadowland creatures facing dangerous predators.[5] He died in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1990 at the age of 64.[6]

Bibliography

  • A Bird for Peter, 1963, Doubleday, Criterion Books [5]
  • Voices in the Meadow, 1964, Doubleday [5]
  • White Water, Still Water, 1966, N.Y., Doubleday OCLC 519386 [5]
  • All the Dark Places, 1968, N.Y., Doubleday [5]
  • A Wind Named Anne, 1970, Doubleday [5]
  • A Darkness of Giants, 1972, Doubleday [5]
  • Among Lions, 1973, Doubleday [5]

References

  1. ↑ LC authority file
  2. 1 2 Inside cover of his book All the Dark Places
  3. ↑ According to WorldCat, as of November 2015, these books were held by 354 and 341 libraries respectively. Both are also available at the Open Library.
  4. ↑ The Author Speaks : selected PW interviews, 1967-1976 New York : Bowker, 1977
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 J. Allan Bosworth at WorldCat
  6. ↑ Ancestry: Allan Bernard Bosworth in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
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