Bo Bryan

Bo Bryan (born October 17, 1948) is a Southern writer, novelist, best known for nonfiction, a regional bestseller, SHAG,The Legendary Dance of the South. SHAG won awards for design and content. Bryan's novel, Bitsty Nickel Might Have AIDS, generated controversy in the early '90's. The novel was optioned for film. Bryan abruptly departed the Southern literary scene in 1997.

Continuing to write privately, producing novels, stories, poems, and memoir in manuscript, Bryan became a single father, raising three young children on a barrier island without a bridge.

He began publishing again with journalism for charities, writing a series of newspaper articles and Internet copy to promote Project Amazonas, a group he joined on medical expeditions servicing primitive villages along the Amazon River.

In his hometown of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Bryan published an essay on homeless high school students that sparked an outpouring of community support. Tens-of-thousands-of-dollars in donations were raised in a matter of days. He continues to organize and write on the homeless student crisis.

Bryan's early life included passions for golf and quarter horses. He has experience as a professional poker player and deepwater sailboat captain. He is a former hotel owner- operator and real estate investor.

He continues to produce new writing.