Bound for Glory (book)
{{Short description|1943 autobiography of Woody Guthrie}}
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| name = Bound for Glory
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| caption = First edition
| author = Woody Guthrie
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| subject =
| genre = Autobiography, Folk music
| publisher = E.P. Dutton
| release_date = 1943
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Bound for Glory is the partially fictionalized autobiography of folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie. The book describes Guthrie's childhood, his travels across the United States as a hobo on the railroad, and his recognition as a singer. Some of the experiences of fruit picking and a hobo camp are similar to those described in The Grapes of Wrath.
Background
Originally published in 1943, it was republished with a foreword written by Studs Terkel following the 1976 film adaptation.{{cite web|title=Bound For Glory, 1943 - Woody Guthrie|url=http://woodyguthrie.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TWGS&Product_Code=BFG&Category_Code=BOOK|website=WoodyGuthrie.Org|accessdate=20 September 2014|archive-date=7 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107235153/http://www.woodyguthrie.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TWGS&Product_Code=BFG&Category_Code=BOOK|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Bound for Glory (1976)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074235/|website=IMDb page for 1976 film|accessdate=20 September 2014}} The book was completed with the patient editing assistance of Guthrie's wife, Marjorie, and was first published by E.P. Dutton in 1943.Amazon.com. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007E0CZ2 Bound for Glory (Unknown Binding).] Retrieved November 27, 2007. Clifton Fadiman, reviewing the book in The New Yorker, said "Someday people are going to wake up to the fact that Woody Guthrie and the ten thousand songs that leap and tumble off the strings of his music box are a national possession, like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and part of the best stuff this country has to show the world."{{cite news |last=Isserman |first=Maurice |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-01-18-0401170325-story.html |title=Life of Woody Guthrie is thorough, if original |work=Chicago Tribune |location=Chicago |date=2004-01-18 |accessdate=2021-03-08 }}
Legacy
A film adaptation of Bound for Glory was released in 1976.
The Boomtown Rats, an Irish rock band, took their name from Woody Guthrie's boyhood gang in the book.[{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p3745/biography|pure_url=yes}} Boomtown Rats - Biography by William Ruhlmann at Allmusic.com]
Bob Dylan was greatly influenced by the work; in Dylan's own autobiography, he wrote of Bound for Glory: "I went through it cover to cover like a hurricane, totally focused on every word, and the book sang out to me like the radio."{{Cite web|date=2011-06-15|title=Bob Dylan visits Woody Guthrie|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/16/bob-dylan-woody-guthrie|access-date=2020-07-31|website=the Guardian|language=en}}{{Cite news|title=His back pages|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/his-back-pages-1.1163323|access-date=2020-07-31|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}
References
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Category:Music autobiographies
Category:1943 non-fiction books
Category:Autobiographies adapted into films
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