# Denis Boyles > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Denis_Boyles > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Denis_Boyles.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Boyles > Source revision: 1346945167 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American writer and academic}} '''Denis Boyles''' was a journalist, editor, university lecturer and the author/editor of several books of poetry, travel/history, criticism, humor, practical advice and essays. His work has appeared in many American and European magazines and newspapers. He died in 2023. == Education == His MA was awarded by the graduate Writing Seminars at the [Johns Hopkins University](/source/Johns_Hopkins_University); his PhD is from the Communications and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) of the [University of Westminster](/source/University_of_Westminster) in London.{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}} == Career == {{Unreferenced section|date=April 2026}} As an editor, he edited an "underground" newspaper in Baltimore in the '60s. He taught in Baltimore, London and Dublin, then served on the editorial staff of [Crawdaddy](/source/Crawdaddy), [The New York Times Magazine](/source/The_New_York_Times_Magazine), [National Lampoon](/source/National_Lampoon_(magazine)), [Playboy](/source/Playboy), and [Men's Health](/source/Men's_Health), where he was a popular columnist and a National Magazine Award finalist. He served as editorial director for several digital publishers, including [Novo Media](/source/Novo_Media) and [Third Age Media](/source/Third_Age_Media), and from 2010 to 2013 was a juror for the [University of Missouri](/source/University_of_Missouri) Journalism School-administered [City and Regional Magazine Association](/source/City_and_Regional_Magazine_Association) competition. For several years he wrote commentary on the European press in a column for ''[National Review](/source/National_Review)'' Online, and was a contributor to the 2009 [Oxford](/source/Oxford) Encyclopedia of Human Rights. He resided in [France](/source/France), where he taught at The Brouzils Seminars, a graduate and undergraduate writing and creative arts program. In 2009, with philosopher [Anthony O'Hear](/source/Anthony_O'Hear) OBE, he launched [The Fortnightly Review](/source/The_Fortnightly_Review)'s "New Series", of which he is currently co-editor (with Prof. [Alan Macfarlane](/source/Alan_Macfarlane)), and editor of its book imprint, Odd Volumes. From 2012 to 2015, he was a visiting fellow in the School of Humanities at the [University of Buckingham](/source/University_of_Buckingham). In 2015, he joined the faculties of the [Chavagnes Studium](/source/Chavagnes_Studium), where he teaches literature courses and tutors senior students in literature and philosophy, and [l’Institut Catholique d’Études Supérieures](/source/l%E2%80%99Institut_Catholique_d%E2%80%99%C3%89tudes_Sup%C3%A9rieures) in [La Roche sur Yon](/source/La_Roche_sur_Yon) (I.C.E.S., the University of the Vendée), where he taught graduate courses in journalism. He was a teacher at [Chavagne International College](/source/Chavagnes_International_College), a Catholic boarding school in France. == Books == Boyles is the author of numerous books, including ''Design Poetics'' (1975), ''The Modern Man's Guide to Life'' (1986), ''African Lives'' (1989), ''Man Eaters Motel'' (1991), ''A Man's Life: The Complete Instructions'' (1996), ''The Pocket Professor'' series (2001) and ''Vile France'' (2005), a satirical examination of [French elites](/source/French_elites). In 2008, he wrote ''[Superior, Nebraska](/source/Superior%2C_Nebraska_(reportage))'', a book about [Midwestern](/source/Midwestern_United_States) political and social values ([Doubleday](/source/Doubleday_(publisher))) and in 2009, he co-wrote a documentary film, ''Femmes de Soldats'', with French journalist [Alain Hertoghe](/source/Alain_Hertoghe) for Kuiv Productions Paris. In 2016 Boyles completed a history of the creation and compilation of the [Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica)'s [11th edition](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition) (1910) for [Knopf](/source/Alfred_A._Knopf) that was called "weighty, but worthwhile" by a reviewer for the Seattle Times.{{Cite web |last=Heltzel |first=Ellen Emry |last2= |first2= |date=2016-06-30 |title=How the Encyclopaedia Britannica filled up the world’s bookshelves |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/how-the-encyclopaedia-britannica-filled-up-the-worlds-bookshelves/ |access-date=2026-04-03 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}} Boyle died on 6 November 2023. == Bibliography == * ''Design Poetics'' (1975) * ''The Modern Man's Guide to Life'' (1986) * ''African Lives'' (1989) * ''Man Eaters Motel and Other Stops on the Railway to Nowhere'' (1991) * ''The Modern Man's Guide to Modern Women'' (1993) * ''A Man's Life: The Complete Instructions'' (1996) * ''The Lost Lore of a Man's Life'' (1997) * ''The Pocket Professor'''s guides (religion, physics, philosophy, economics) (as series editor) (2001) * ''Vile France'' (2005) * ''Superior, Nebraska: The Common-Sense Values of America's Heartland'' (2008); Revised and republished as ''The Republican River: Democracy in Middle America'' (2018) {{ISBN|9781732900905}} * ''Everything Explained That Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopædia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition'' (2016), {{ISBN|0307269175}} == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [https://www.nationalreview.com/author/denis-boyles/ National Review archive] * [http://infod309.myportfolio.com/ Denis Boyles] * [http://brouzils.org The Brouzils Seminars] * [http://www.buckingham.ac.uk University of Buckingham] * [http://www.ices.fr I.C.E.S.] * [https://camri.ac.uk/about-us/ CAMRI] * [http://www.westminster.ac.uk/ University of Westminster] * [http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk The Fortnightly Review] * [http://www.kuiv.com/pages/byebyemylove.htm Femmes de Soldats] production notes * {{C-SPAN|1014449}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyles, Denis}} Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:American essayists Category:American satirists Category:American motivational writers Category:American travel writers Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni Category:American magazine journalists Category:American male essayists Category:Los Angeles Herald Examiner people --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Denis Boyles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Boyles) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Boyles?action=history)). 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