{"id":4690,"date":"2015-10-27T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2015-10-27T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:58:44","slug":"charles-boeckman-jr-1920-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2015\/10\/27\/charles-boeckman-jr-1920-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Boeckman Jr.: 1920-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Charles Boeckman Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Charles Boeckman Jr.<\/strong>, one of the last surviving pulp fictioneers, has died less than a month shy of his 95th birthday.<\/p>\n

I didn’t hear about his passing until I saw a post about it last night on Pulpetti<\/a><\/em>, Juri Nummelin<\/strong>‘s blog. Then a quick search on Facebook confirmed the news.<\/p>\n

Writing as Charles Beckman Jr., he broke into the pulps in the mid-1940s and continued writing for them until their demise in the late 1950s. His work appeared in Star Western<\/em>, Detective Tales<\/em>, Fifteen Western Tales<\/em>, Dime Western<\/em> and others. One of his stories was adapted as “Ambition” during the sixth season of TV’s Alfred Hitchcock Presents<\/em> in 1961.<\/p>\n

Boeckman was also a skilled jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, and wrote a jazz history for young readers titled Cool, Hot and Blue<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Late in his life, his wife Patti<\/strong> helped call attention to Boeckman and his work, which led to Bold Venture Press<\/a> publishing Pulp Jazz: The Charles Boeckman Story<\/em> and two pulp anthologies, and new works published by Pro Se Productions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Patti Boeckman also wrote the entry for her husband<\/a> at The PulpWiki<\/a>. You can read an interview with him at The Education of a Pulp Writer<\/a><\/em>, David Cranmer<\/strong>‘s blog, and hear an interview with him on the Texas Standard<\/a><\/em> news program. his obituary in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

A lifelong Texan, Boeckman was born in Seguin, Texas, on Nov. 9, 1920. He died in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Oct. 12, 2015, at age 94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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