Paul Darcy Boles

Paul Darcy Boles (March 5, 1916 - May 4, 1984) was an American author, as well as working in radio, television and advertising.

[1][2] His more than 150 short stories[3] appeared in many American and European periodicals, including Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Saturday Evening Post,[2] Seventeen,[4] Playboy, and Cosmopolitan.

[1] At some point, Boles attended Northwestern University, but was "kicked out [for] writ[ing] a satire on the Establishment" in the school humor magazine.

His first novel, The Streak, is set in southern Europe, and his second one, The Beggars in the Sun, takes place in Mobile, Alabama, where Boles worked for a time.

Although they differ widely in subject matter and setting, Boles said of his books: "All deal in some way with the individual experiencing something, not against the world, but in spite of it.