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James Finney Boylan Different or Weird' “James Finney Boylan’s glasses look ordinary enough. But the world he sees through them is something else,”(Stanley-Sanborn). The way Boylan sees and writes is what makes him a popular writer. He is a comical writer, yet his books still have heart. Many say that his books are weird, but they always seem to read the next one. James Finney Boylan was born in 1958, in Valley Forge Pennsylvania. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1980, and soon became the managing editor of American Bystander magazine. After working there he worked for "American Punch"; which the first cast of "Saturday Night Live" founded. When the American Bystander went under, Boylan became an editorial assistant with Viking/Penguin. He then taught at Johns Hopkins, soon realizing that Maine was the best place, he became a professor at Colby College. Where he still remains today. The Planets was Boylan’s first novel, and for writing it he got a grant from the Pennsylvania State Council for the Arts. His different style of writing created national attention in 1991. When he wrote, he tried to base the writing on the classical music by Gustav Holst. boylan, town, characters, fire, novel, situation, writing, planets, finney, coal, very, through, people, centralia, writer, shows, say, real, pennsylvania, out, one, books, being, write, under, thing, style, reader, mine, makes, live, life, heart, funny, each, different, comic, boylan’s, book, became, american, always, about, able, unusual, underground, try, title, taken