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Jim Tully (June 3, 1886 – June 22, 1947) was an American vagabond, pugilist, and writer. He enjoyed critical and commercial success as a writer in the 1920s and 1930s.
Sep 23, 2022 · I n the '20s and '30s, Jim Tully was a national celebrity, known as a pioneering novelist, Charlie Chaplin's wingman and publicist — and for punching a major movie star in the face at the Brown...
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Nov 19, 2014 · Jim Tully was a former hobo who became a pioneer of hardboiled fiction and a Hollywood insider. Learn about his life, his novels, his feuds and his rediscovery by two biographers.
May 15, 2011 · Learn about the life and works of Jim Tully, a hard-boiled author of the 1920s and '30s who wrote about the outcasts and vagabonds of America. Discover how he became a friend and foe of Charlie Chaplin, H.L. Mencken and other celebrities.
Apr 13, 2011 · The first biography of the vagabond, hard-boiled writer who rocked Hollywood during the Roaring Twenties. The son of an Irish ditch-digger, Jim Tully (1886–1947) left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes.
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Jan 1, 2021 · Jim Tully was a boxer, writer, and Hollywood reporter who chronicled his life on the road and the underclass of American society. Learn about his biography, works, and legacy as a "hobo novelist" and a pioneer of hard-boiled writing.
Nov 1, 2003 · A bestseller in 1924, this vivid piece of outlaw history has inexplicably faded from the public consciousness. Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on freight trains, and inside hobo jungles and brothels while narrowly averting railroad bulls (cops) and wardens of order.
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