J. Allan Bosworth (1925–1990)

Allan Bernard Bosworth using the pen-name J. Allan Bosworth, is an American author of children's adventure books. His father, Allan Rucker Bosworth, was also a writer.

Bosworth 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. He lived in Salem, Virginia, the setting for All the Dark Places.