Jack Boone

Jack Happel Boone (19031966) was an American writer. He won the O. Henry Award for his short story, Big Singing, in 1932. The only novel he published during his lifetime was Dossie Bell is Dead, released in 1939.

Biography Boone was born in Trenton, Tennessee, to Elbert Franklin and Martha Ford Boone. He and his family moved to Henderson, Tennessee. His long forgotten and unpublished Neely County short stories are scheduled for publication in the fall of 2022.

However, Boone also authored several novels between 1940 and 1951, none of which were published. In 2020, his long lost sequel to Dossie Bell is Dead was published by BrayBree Publishing Company. The sequel was reassembled after the pages of the manuscript were discovered among two collections. Historian and attorney John E. Talbott, who is also spearheading the collection, editing and publication of Boone's work, reassembled and published the sequel, Woods Girl.

Boone's academic career ended in 1951 and he retired to Henderson, Tennessee, and focused on his writing.

Many of Boone's papers were donated to the archives of Freed-Hardeman University, a private Christian school located in his hometown of Henderson.