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Jim Tully (June 3, 1886 - June 22, 1947), was an American writer. His critical and commercial success in the 1920s and 30s may qualify him as the greatest long shot in American literature.
Born near St. Marys, Ohio, to an Irish immigrant ditch-digger and his wife, Tully enjoyed a relatively happy but impoverished childhood until the death of his mother in 1892. Unable to care for him, his father sent him to an orphanage in Cincinnati. He remained there for six years until the loneliness and misery became more than he could bear. What further education he acquired came in the hobo camps, boxcars, railroad yards, and public libraries scattered across the country. Finally, weary of the road, he arrived in Kent, Ohio, where he worked as a chain maker, professional boxer, and tree surgeon. He also began to write, mostly poetry published in the local newspapers. He moved to Hollywood in 1912, when he began writing in earnest. His literary career took two distinct paths. He became one of the first reporters to cover Hollywood. As a free-lancer he wasn't constrained by the studios and wrote about Hollywood celebrities (including Charlie Chaplin, for whom he'd worked) in ways that they didn't always find agreeable. For these pieces, rather tame by current standards, he became known as the most-hated man in Hollywood—a title he relished. Less lucrative but closer to his heart were the dark novels he wrote about his life on the road and the American underclass. He also wrote an affectionate memoir of his childhood with his extended Irish family, as well as novels on prostitution, boxing, Hollywood, and a travel book. While some of the more graphic books ran afoul of the censors, they also garnered both commercial success and critical acclaim from, among others, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, and Rupert Hughes, who wrote that Tully "has fathered the school of hard-boiled writing so zealously cultivated by Ernest Hemingway and lesser luminaries." Paul Bauer and Mark Dawidziak

Works

Novels

Emmett Lawler (1922) (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.)
Beggars of Life (1924) (New York: Albert & Charles Boni)
Jarnegan (1926) (New York: Albert & Charles Boni)
Circus Parade (1927) (New York: Albert & Charles Boni)
Shanty Irish (1928) (New York: Albert & Charles Boni)
Shadows of Men (1930) (New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company)
Beggars Abroad (1930) (New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company)
Blood on the Moon (1931) (New York: Coward-McCann, Inc.)
A Man of the New School (1931) (Cincinnati: Greater Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati)
Laughter in Hell (1932) (New York: Albert & Charles Boni)
Ladies in the Parlor (1935) (New York: Greenberg: Publisher)
The Bruiser (1936) (New York: Greenberg: Publisher)
Biddy Brogan’s Boy (1942) (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons)
A Dozen and One (1943) (Hollywood: Murray & Gee)

Plays

Twenty Below (1927) play (London: Robert Holden & Co. Ltd.)Further Information

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