R.I.P. William J. Hurley, 86 ("Dan Frontier" series, 1959-1964)

[Lenona]

A former English professor, he lived in Palos Heights, near Chicago.

http://www.depaulbluedemons.com/sports/d-club/spec-rel/012711aaa.html

http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/3479430-418/hurley-daughter-later-war-chicago.html
(includes photo)

First quarter of obit:

William James Hurley Jr. did not shy away from challenges.

He was a gunner on a B-17 bomber during World War II — enlisting at
age 17, against his father’s will.

He survived — and became a Chicago high school teacher, a college
professor and children’s author.

Mr. Hurley died Jan. 13 at his Palos Heights home from prostate
cancer. He was 86.

Mr. Hurley was born while his parents, who were from St. Paul, Minn.,
vacationed in Chicago.

The Hurley family later moved to the North Side after the Great
Depression — where Mr. Hurley worked for a meat market as a boy, but
ate so much that he was asked to leave. He later worked as a mail
clerk at the Northwestern Railroad before heading off to war.

Before the war, Mr. Hurley attended Quigley North High School and got
kicked out for lobbing water balloons out the window.

“It’s kind of ironic that only a few years later he was looking out
the window of a B-17,” said his son Pat Hurley..........

(snip)

http://exoticeatingexperiment.blogspot.com/2008/01/childrens-book-monday-dan-frontier.html
(blog about the series)

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=william+hurley+%22dan+frontier%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=vi&biw=1280&bih=832
(more book covers)

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

•Dan Frontier, 1959.
•Dan Frontier Goes Hunting, 1959.
•Dan Frontier and the Wagon Train, 1959.
•Dan Frontier with the Indians, 1959.
•Dan Frontier, Sheriff, 1960.
•Dan Frontier and the New House, 1961.
•Dan Frontier and the Big Cat, 1961.
•Dan Frontier, Trapper, 1962.
•Dan Frontier Scouts with the Army, 1962.
•Dan Frontier Goes Exploring, 1963.
•Dan Frontier Goes to Congress, 1964.

Lenona.