Mark Boyle

Born: 09/11/1928   Detroit , MI
Died: 12/28/2001
Parents: Alphonse and Mary Kienzle
Spouse: Javan Herman Andrews (an editor and researcher)

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Gathering
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 2002
The Sacrifice
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 2001
Till Death
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 2000
No Greater Love
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1999
The Greatest Evil
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1998
The Man Who Loved God
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1997
Requim for Moses
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1996
Call No Man Father
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1995
Bishop as Pawn
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1994
Body Count
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1992
Chameleon
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1990
Masquerade
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1990
Eminence
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1989
Marked for Murder
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City , MO : Andrews McMeel & Parker 1988
Deadline for a Critic
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City , MO : Andrews McMeel & Parker 1987
Deathbed
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City , MO : Andrews McMeel & Parker 1986
Sudden Death
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City , MO : Andrews McMeel & Parker 1985
Kill and Tell
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1984
Dead Wrong
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1983
Shadow of Death
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1983
Assault with Intent
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Fairway, KS : Andrews McMeel 1982
Mind over Murder
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1981
Death Wears a Red Hat
- Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Andrews McMeel 1980
Rosary Murders
- Motion Picture with Donald Sutherland, 1987 Father Koesler Mystery
Michigan , Mystery Adult Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel 1979
Campaign Capers Drama Adult Produced in Detroit, MI 1960
- Contributor to MPLS Magazine under name Mark Boyle and Homicide Host Presents Mystery
What is the aim or goal of your writing: 3rd. ed. says, Aim of writing is "Food, clothing, shelter, entertain, and instruct" Contempoary Authors says, "After leaving the priesthood in 1974, William X. Kienzle "exchanged his pulpit for a typewriter," as Bill Dunn described in Publishers Weekly, and began writing the tales that made him a best-selling mystery author. The twenty years he spent in the priesthood provided the raw material for his popular series involving Father Robert Koesler, an amateur sleuth and sharply defined priest who resembled Kienzle in several ways. "The fictitious Father Koesler divides his time between his pastoral duties within the Detroit archdiocese and his journalistic duties as an editor of the area's Catholic newspaper, just as Kienzle spent his time during the 1960's."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Awards:

Name Date
Honorable Mention from Catholic Press Association for Editorial Writing 1974
Michigan Knight of Columbus Journalism Award 1963

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd. ed. 1993
Detroit Powers and Personalities by Tim Kiska 1989
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
The Mystery Lover's Companion by Art Bourgeau 1986
Murder Ink : The Mystery Reader's Companion 1984
Contemporary Authors
- Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 93-96, 1980 Contemporary Authors - Obituary, volume(s) 203 Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, volume(s) 1 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 9, 31, 59, 111
1980 -2003

Memberships:

Name Date
Mystery Writers of America 1983
International Association of Crime Writers

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Attended University of Detroit Detroit , MI 1968
Attended St. John's Provincial Seminary Plymouth , MI 1950 -1954
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Sacred Heart Seminary College Detroit , MI 1942 -1949

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Writer 1979 -2001
Director of Center for Contemplative Studies University of Dallas Irving 1978 -1979
Associate Director of Center for Contemplative Studies Western Michigan University Kalamazoo , MI 1977 -1978
Editor-in-Chief MPLS Magazine Minneapolis 1974 -1977
Editor-in-Chief Michigan Catholic 1962 -1974
Ordained Roman Catholic Priest
- Left in 1974
1954
Priest in 5 Parishes Roman Catholic Archdioese of Detroit Detroit , MI 1954 -1974

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