Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes nine-time Silver Spur Award-winning author Johnny D. Boggs as a Guest of Honor! Booklist has called Johnny D. Boggs “among the best western writers at work today.” In addition to his nine Silver Spur Awards, Johnny’s novel Spark on the Prairie won the Western Heritage Wrangler Award. In 2020, Boggs received the Owen Wister Award for lifetime contributions and was inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame.
A prolific writer of short nonfiction, Boggs has written about all aspects of the American West: travel stories, environmental issues, fashion news, apparel industry trends, history articles, reviews and celebrity Q&As and profiles (including James Arness, Val Kilmer, Chuck Norris, Wes Studi, Randy Travis and his friends rodeo legend Larry Mahan and the late Western writers Elmer Kelton and Max Evans). He is a frequent contributor to True West, Wild West and Western Art and Architecture magazines.
More recently, he has started writing film histories. His nonfiction film studies include American Newspaper Journalists on Film: Portrayals of the Press During the Sound Era (McFarland, 2023); Sports on Film (ABC-CLIO, 2021), Billy the Kid on Film, 1911-2012 (McFarland, 2013) and Jesse James and the Movies (McFarland, 2011)
We are honored and elated to have Johnny join us as a Guest of Honor for our 12th year, taking place July 18-20, 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information on the Imaginarium Convention, please visit www.entertheimaginarium.com
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