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Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler
Mark Dawidziak
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Paul J. Bauer
(Author)
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Commonwealth Book Company, Inc.
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Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler - Bauer, Paul J. ; Dawidziak, Mark ; Burns, Ken
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Synopsis "Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler"
Many saw the dark side of the American dream, but none wrote about it like Jim Tully. Having spent six years of his childhood in a Cincinnati orphanage, Tully returned to his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio before climbing aboard a freight train in 1901. Drifting across the country as a "road kid," he spent his teens, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, and haunting public libraries. After six years on the road, he settled in Kent, Ohio where he boxed professionally and began to write. Following a move to Hollywood where he worked for Charlie Chaplin, Tully issued a stream of critically acclaimed books that serve as a dark and astonishing chronicle of the American underclass. Having established himself as a major American author, he turned his attention to Hollywood writing dozens of articles about the movies, often shocking the Hollywood establishment. Along the way, he picked up such close friends as W. C. Fields, Jack Dempsey, H. L. Mencken, and Frank Capra. He also memorably crossed paths with Jack London, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, and Langston Hughes.
