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Meet the Author – Western Writer Johnny D. Boggs
Please join the Friends of the Cross Plains Library Tuesday, October 17, 7:00 PM, at the Cross Plains Community Center for an entertaining evening with western writer Johnny D. Boggs, winner of two Spur Awards from Western Writers of American. Boggs, described by Booklist magazine as “among the best western writers at work today,” was born in South Carolina, and two of his novels, The Despoilers (2002) and Ghost Legion (2005) chronicle the struggle in the Carolina backcountry during the American Revolution. Boggs worked for almost 15 years in Texas as a sports journalist at the Dallas Times Herald and Fort Worth Star-Telegram before moving to New Mexico in 1998 to concentrate full time on his novels and books. The Western Writers of American awarded Boggs a Spur Award for Best Short Fiction in 2002 for “A Piano at Dead Man’s Crossing,” and another in 2006 for Best Western Novel, Camp Ford. He won the Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel in 2003 for Spark on the Prairie: The Trial of the Kiowa Chiefs. His novel Ten and Me was a Spur finalist in 2000.
Boggs is a prolific writer of short nonfiction and a frequent contributor to True West, New Mexico Magazine, Persimmon Hill, Wild West, and Boys’ Life. His novels include Lonely Trumpet, an historical novel about the first black graduate of West Point; The Big Fifty, a critically acclaimed novel about the buffalo slaughter of the 1870s; East of the Border, a comic novel about the 1873-74 theatrical careers of Buffalo Bill Cody, Texas Jack Omohundro and Wild Bill Hickok; and Law of the Land: the Trial of Billy the Kid, about William H. Bonney’s murder trial for the killing of Sheriff William Brady during the Lincoln County War.
As well as being a prolific writer, Boggs is also an entertaining speaker, so we hope you’ll join us on Tuesday, October 17, at 7:00 PM. There’s no charge for the program, though donations to the Cross Plains Public Library are always cheerfully accepted. Mr. Boggs will have books available for purchase, and he’ll be happy to visit with you and answer questions while you enjoy the light refreshments provided by the Friends of the Cross Plains Library.
For directions to the Cross Plains Community Center, please call the library at 254-725-7722.