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Zachary Ball

ザカリー・ボール

Zakarii Bōru

Aliases: Kelly Ray Masters / Kelly Ray Masters, Sr.

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1897-06-16 （Mill Grove, Missouri）
Died
1987-07-04 （Roswell, New Mexico） age 90
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Mill Grove, Missouri → Southeast Kansas near Altoona → Kansas City, Kansas → St. Joseph, Missouri → Austin, Texas → Miami, Florida → Roswell, New Mexico

Career

Occupations
writer, actor, repertory show performer
Active Years
1945-1987

Awards

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
1964
Work: Bristle Face
Category: 子供向け書籍
Organization: Vermont Library Association
Result: 受賞
William Allen White Children's Book Award
1965
Work: Bristle Face
Category: 子供向け書籍
Organization: Kansas State Library Association
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Joe Panther

1950 adventure novel

A young Seminole in south Florida comes of age by working on fishing boats and encountering smugglers.

coming of agenaturesmugglingSeminole culture
Adaptations
  • [film] Joe Panther / Paul Krasny (1976)

Bristle Face

1962 adventure novel

An orphan boy adopts a dog named Bristle Face and they become fox hunting partners.

boy and dogfriendshiphuntingorphan
Adaptations
  • [TV movie] Bristle Face (1964)

Bibliography

  • Pull Down to New Orleans
  • Piney
  • Joe Panther
  • Swamp Chief
  • The Secret Forest
  • Bar Pilot
  • Skin Diver
  • Keelboat Journey
  • Young Mike Fink
  • North to Abilene
  • Salvage Diver
  • Kep
  • Bristle Face
  • Sputters
  • Tent Show
  • Wilderness Teacher
  • Sky Diver

Adaptations

  • Joe Panther (1976 film)
  • Bristle Face (1964 TV)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
adventurous narrativeboy's perspectiverich natural descriptions
Recurring Motifs
rivers and seasboys and animalscoming-of-age stories

Legacy

Known for boys' adventure novels like Joe Panther and Bristle Face, which won children's book awards. Papers archived in university libraries.

Archives

  • de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, University of Southern Mississippi
  • James C. Kirkpatrick Library, University of Central Missouri

In Popular Culture

  • Roswell declared Zachary Ball Day in 1976

Quotes

  • I was still a boy when I first met Old Man River, and I got to know him well.
    Source: Young Mike Fink (1958)

Trivia

  • Pen name from movie stars Zachary Scott and Lucille Ball