Posts Tagged ‘St. Marys’

Jim Tully—novelist, memoirist, journalist, boxer, hobo—was born on June 3, 1886 in St. Marys, Ohio. He wrote fourteen books, many of them about the dark realities of poverty and the gritty underbelly of American life. Tully knew this world firsthand. Jim Tully was the son of Irish immigrants. His father was an alcoholic ditch digger…