Jim Tully
Subtitle: American writer, Irish rover, Hollywood brawler
By: Paul J. Bauer and Mark Dawidziak ; foreword by Ken Burns
Contributors: Dawidziak, Mark, 1956-; Burns, Ken, 1953-
Publisher: Kent State University Press; The Kent State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781606350768
Subjects: Irish Americans; American Authors; Biography; Tramps
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: Coins for a dead woman's eyes; title: Six years of imprisonment; title: Hearts ignorant of homes; title: Big rock candy mountain; title: The end of the road; title: The fire and the ring; title: Troubled in heart; title: Write or starve; title: Emmett Lawler; title: Hollywood writer; title: The road-kid and the little tramp; title: Beggars of life; title: One more illusion; title: Jarnegan; title: Circus parade; title: Shanty Irish; title: Shadows of men; title: Beggars abroad; title: Blood on the moon; title: Laughter in hell; title: Ladies in the parlor; title: Return to the ring; title: The bruiser; title: Biddy Brogan's boy; title: The last division; title: Epilogue.