Robert E. Boles

Robert Boles (1942- ) was born in Massachusetts. His early life was spent travelling abroad, since his father was a diplomat.

Boles was a medic and also worked as a reporter for The Yarmouth Register. He moved to New York in sometime in the mid-to-late 60's, and he was a visiting lecturer at either Iowa State or the Iowa Writers Workshop in the late 60's.

He wrote two novels--1964's The People We Know and 1968's Curling, the first of which was published when he was just twenty-three. His short stories were published in The New Yorker, Tri-Quarterly, and Langston Hughes' anthology The Best Short Stories by Negro Americans.

Sources:

Randall, Dudley. “The Too-Calm Chronicle Of Life as a ‘White’ Negro.” Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 1968.

Stephens, Martha. “First Novels by Young Negroes.” The Courier-Journal, 27 Sept. 1967.

“Robert Boles, Writer, to Speak at SUAB.” Press and Sun-Bulletin , 4 Dec. 1969.

Rowden, Terry. “Robert Boles.” Encyclopedia of African-American Literature, edited by Wilfred D. Samuels et al., Facts on File, 2007.

“Young Negro ‘Splits’ from Protest-Type Writing.” Star-Gazette, 7 Dec. 1967.

“Writers Symposium.” Negro Digest, Jan. 1968.