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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.
About The Author | FX Toole. El Faraón del Alfabeto. In my mid and late forties I came to boxing by choice and by chance. But I had already been there as far back as the mid thirties.
It’s amazing it took so long, because Irish-born Toole, now living and working in Los Angeles, is a natural. His knowledge of the bizarre world of professional boxing is encyclopedic and utterly persuasive, his prose is as tight as a well-laced pair of gloves and his protagonists, in this collection of five stories and a novella, are ...
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 · F.X. Toole. 3.95. 341 ratings45 reviews. Pound for Pound is a big novel in the truest sense of the word, a story of family, honor, perseverance, and forgiveness.
Jan 1, 2001 · 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.
