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F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd [1] (1930 – September 2, 2002). Toole is most noted for writing the 2000 collection of short stories Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, which were adapted into the Oscar -winning movie Million Dollar Baby in 2004.
ACCLAIMED BOOK OF SHORT STORIES, THAT WAS THE BASIS FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING MOVIE “MILLION DOLLAR BABY”. “ F.X. Toole is a writer to break the heart. [He] reads like one who has journeyed to Hades and back, bursting with the tales to tell of what he has seen.
“Toole, who died before seeing the Oscar-winning movie adaptation of his short story “Million Dollar Baby,” weighs in posthumously with this bruising smoker of a novel. (The novel was “shaped,” notes James Ellroy in the introduction, from a 900-page manuscript by Toole’s agent and a freelance editor.)
Jan 1, 2000 · This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X. Toole, is the basis for the Oscar-winning motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman.
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Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner is a 2000 collection of short fiction works by F.X. Toole. [1] The book is composed of five short stories and a novella. [2]
Sep 2, 2002 · F. X. Toole was the pseudonym of Jerry Boyd (1930–2002), a boxing trainer and author whose work inspired the award-winning film Million Dollar Baby. In 1988, Boyd began writing about boxing, using the pseudonym F. X. Toole to keep his hobby secret from his colleagues in the boxing world.
Jan 1, 2006 · This masterful, posthumous novel follows Toole's remarkable fiction debut, Rope Burns (recently published in paperback as Million Dollar Baby), which earned comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and Frank McCourt, and which became an Academy Award-winning film four years after publication.
