Overview
As a young man, Jim Tully set off on the road and on the railroad tracks, meeting all sorts of marginalized figures. He also cut his teeth as an author with this book, which was adapted into a movie and is credited with establishing the hard-boiled fiction style that later defined the work of authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, and Jack Kerouac.Author Biography
Jim Tully was a vagabond, boxer, and writer, self-educated in hobo camps boxcars, and public libraries. After publishing poetry in local papers, he moved to Hollywood, where he became a preeminent, and often subversive, reporter on the film industry. Through his work was always surrounded by controversy, he was immensely popular among the public and with critics.