Vernon Gravely

Vernon Gravely is a freelance writer and documentary filmmaker based in southwest Illinois. He has worked as a nursing assistant, vitamin store clerk, security guard (that lasted one night), dishwasher, corn detasseler, movie theater usher, movie theater janitor, writing tutor, English instructor, ESL instructor, holistic test scorer, and several other things that he either can't recall or refuses to divulge due to traumatic experiences associated with the various positions. His interests include film and television (as well as the history of those mediums), boxing, music (especially from the '50s and '60s), unsolved mysteries, and World War One aerial warfare. His fiction writing is relegated to screenplays that don't sell and his nonfiction writing centers on film, television and boxing history and little-known players in those areas.