Allan Bernard Bosworth (July 6, 1925 – May 3, 1990), using the pen-name J. Allan Bosworth, was an American author of children's adventure books.^[1] His father, Allan Rucker Bosworth, was also a writer.

Bosworth was born in San Diego, California in July 1925. He began writing while still a radioman aboard USS Missouri. World War II had just ended, and the ship was on her long voyage home. A native Californian, he returned to San Francisco and took a job at the Chronicle. Ten years later, having published two novels and a few dozen short stories, he left the newspaper to begin writing on a full-time basis.^[2] He lived in Salem, Virginia, the setting for All the Dark Places.

His best-known books are White Water, Still Water, about a boy stranded downriver by his raft, and All the Dark Places, about a boy lost in an Appalachian cave.^[3] White Water, Still Water was included by School Library Journal as one of the 26 best books of spring in 1966.^[2][4] Before developing the wilderness adventure theme, Bosworth wrote Voices in the Meadow, a fable of meadowland creatures facing dangerous predators.^[5] He died in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1990 at the age of 64.^[6]

• A Bird for Peter, 1963, Doubleday, Criterion Books^[5]
• Voices in the Meadow, 1964, Doubleday^[5]
• White Water, Still Water, 1966, N.Y., Doubleday OCLC 519386^[5]
• All the Dark Places, 1968, N.Y., Doubleday^[5]
• A Wind Named Anne, 1970, Doubleday^[5]
• A Darkness of Giants, 1972, Doubleday^[5]
• Among Lions, 1973, Doubleday^[5]

• J. Allan Bosworth at Library of Congress, with 6 library catalog records