F.X. Toole
Boxing trainer, author (1930-2002)
- Born
- 30 July 1930, Long Beach
- Died
- 2 September 2002, Torrance
- Citizenship
- United States
- Sport
- boxing
- Occupation
- writer, boxer, screenwriter, actor, author
F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd (1930 – September 2, 2002). Toole is most noted for writing the 2000 collection of short stories Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, which were adapted into the Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar Baby in 2004. F.X. Toole's posthumous novel Pound for Pound was released in 2006 to rave reviews. Cutman, a one-hour dramatic series set in the world of boxing, drawn from short stories by F.X. Toole, is in development by AMC Television.
Awards and honours
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 2001
External links
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.