Circus parade
by Jim Tully
Fiction, biographicalFiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiledUnited states, fictionCircusFiction
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Sketches based on personal experience with the life and people of a traveling circus.
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Fiction, biographicalFiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiledUnited states, fictionCircusFiction
About the author
Jim Tully
1886 – 1947
Born near St. Marys, Ohio to James Dennis and Bridget Marie Lawler Tully, 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. 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. He becam…
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