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 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.Inside cover of his book All the Dark Places 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.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. 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
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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