Biography
Boring was born September 12, 1939, in St. Clair Shores, Michigan the son of Harold Truman (an electrician) and Helen Irene (Hatfield) Boring. He married Carol Lynne Trettin (a registered nurse) on June 21, 1975. He has four children: Joshua Scott, actor Jeremy Davies, Zachary Michael, and Katrina Lynne.
Boring earned his B.A. from Sterling College, Sterling, Kansas, in 1961 and attended Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, where he received his Master of Divinity (M. Div.) in 1965.
Boring, who has had a long and varied career, began as an educator, which sparked his interest in writing books for children. He claims that he had difficulty learning to read in early childhood, although he loved to hear books read to him. Those books, especially Dr. Seuss’s The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, served as inspiration for his career in writing.
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