World War II had just ended, and the ship was on her long voyage home.
A native Californian, he returned to San Francisco and took a job at the Chronicle.
Ten years later, having published two novels and a few dozen short stories, he left the newspaper to begin writing on a full-time basis.
His best-known books are White Water, Still Water, about a boy stranded downriver by his raft, and All the Dark Places, about a boy lost in an Appalachian cave.
[2][4] Before developing the wilderness adventure theme, Bosworth wrote Voices in the Meadow, a fable of meadowland creatures facing dangerous predators.