Jim Tully spent most of his teenage yers in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a"road-kid", he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. After six years on the road, he jumped off a railfoad car in Kent, Ohio, with wild aspirations of becoming a writer. After moving to Hollywood, Tully quickly established himself as a major American author. - Book jacket.