| J. Allan Bosworth | |
| Birth Name: | Allan Bernard Bosworth |
| Birth Date: | 6 July 1925 |
| Birth Place: | San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Pseudonym: | J. Allan Bosworth |
| Occupation: | Author |
Allan Bernard Bosworth (July 6, 1925 – May 3, 1990), using the pen-name J. Allan Bosworth, was an American author of children's adventure books.[1] His father, Allan Rucker Bosworth, was also a writer.
Bosworth was born in San Diego, California in July 1925. He began writing while still a radioman aboard USS Missouri. 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.[2] He lived in Salem, Virginia, the setting for All the Dark Places.
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.[3] White Water, Still Water was included by School Library Journal as one of the 26 best books of spring in 1966.[4] Before developing the wilderness adventure theme, Bosworth wrote Voices in the Meadow, a fable of meadowland creatures facing dangerous predators.[5] He died in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1990 at the age of 64.[6]