Johnny D. Boggs

Johnny D. Boggs, who Booklist magazine said was among the best western writers at work today, has won nine Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and a Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Also a film historian and former newspaper journalist, Johnny's newest book is "American Newspaper Journalists on Film." 

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Awards: Nine Spur Awards (Western Writers of America), Western Heritage Wrangler Award (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum), 2015 Arkansiana Award (Arkansas Library Association)

Lights! Camera! America!

Authors Johnny Boggs, Kirk Ellis and Alan Rode all know a thing or two about history ... and Hollywood. Today they'll discuss how history has been brought to life on film.

Student Union Sabino (Seats 87)  
Sat, Mar 4, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Multigenre
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA BookStore Tent (on Mall) (following presentation)  

Panelists: Johnny Boggs, Kirk Ellis, Alan K. Rode
Moderator: Andrew Patrick Nelson

Visions of the West

This morning we will meet three authors with books detailing life in the West. Saddle up!

Koffler Room 218 (Seats 142, Wheelchair accessible)  
Sun, Mar 5, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA BookStore Tent (on Mall) (following presentation)  

Panelists: Ted Conover, Kathryn Wilder, Emma Zimmerman
Moderator: Johnny Boggs

Books:

American Newspaper Journalists on Film

Portrayals of the Press During the Sound Era
History / Biography
McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers
November 2022
ISBN 9781476679938
120 pages

Matthew Johnson, Us Marshal

Fiction / Literature
Blackstone Western
December 2022
ISBN 9781094086545
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