About Bill Boggs
William Boggs III (born July 11, 1941) is an American television host and journalist. == Biography == Boggs was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA. He earned a master's degree from the university's Annenberg School for Communication. He was a celebrity correspondent for the syndicated My Generation television show airing on PBS, featuring interviews inspired by his 2007 HarperCollins book, Got What it Takes?: Successful People Reveal How They Made It to the Top. The book includes interviews with Renée Zellweger, Donald Trump, Sir Richard Branson, Clive Davis, Joe Torre, and others. His novel, At First Sight (Grosset and Dunlap 1980) and Talk Show Confidential, his one-man show about his TV career, were optioned for a screenplay inspired by his life. Boggs’ Wonder Dog books–The Adventures of Spike the Wonder Dog (Post Hill Press 2020) and Spike Unleashed (Post Hill Press 2023) feature Spike, an English Bull Terrier with a politically incorrect sense of humor and a heart of gold. They tell the story of his rise to fame on both his master's TV talk show and social media, and the price he pays for that fame. Boggs began his show business career in comedy, when he became the manager for a comedy team named Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses, who were coworkers with Boggs at the Armstrong Cork Company in Lancaster. The three men left Armstrong for show business. While helping to launch their careers Boggs also worked as a substitute teacher in the Philadelphia public school system and later as Assistant Dean of Men, at his alma mater, UPenn.
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