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. LC authority file
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Allan Rucker Bosworth Allan Rucker Bosworth (October 29, 1901 – July 18, 1986) was an American author, newspaperman, and naval officer. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and magazine articles. Between 1925 and 1936 he worked at several California ...

, 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 ''

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''. 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.Inside cover of his book ''All the Dark Places'' He lived in

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, 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. ''White Water, Still Water'' was included by '' School Library Journal'' as one of the 26 best books of spring in 1966.''The Author Speaks : selected PW interviews, 1967-1976'' New York : Bowker, 1977 Before developing the wilderness adventure theme, Bosworth wrote ''Voices in the Meadow'', a fable of meadowland creatures facing dangerous predators.J. Allan Bosworth
at WorldCat He died in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1990 at the age of 64.Ancestry: Allan Bernard Bosworth in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
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Bibliography

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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bosworth, J. Allan 1925 births 1990 deaths Writers from San Diego Military personnel from California 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists American adventure novelists American children's writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers