Books about Keansburg

Books about Keansburg: A few books have been written with Keansburg for the setting of the story.  Some of these stories are fictional and some are not.

• The Crystal Ballroom is the semi-autobiographical tale of the famed cartoon artist of the Marvel heroine "Red Sonja".  Frank Thorne is "one of the most respected and accomplished comic artists of his generation."  The illustrated story tells the tale of several teenagers growing up in the World War II era of the 1940's.  They all have the same ambition, to play jazz at the famed Crystal Ballroom in Keansburg, New Jersey.  The actual Crystal Ballroom was one of the premier music venues in the forties and fifties.

         Google Books Link:  The Crystal Ballroom

• Shoretown, a novel by Dan Milczarski, tells a sordid tale of several friends down on their luck in a poor beach resort area.  An interesting story that's poorly written by someone who obviously had a bad time growing up in a similar community.  The book cover shows a picture of the boardwalk area reflected in a dirty puddle, suggesting something ominous.  There are several references to corruption in the town, some very real and some imagined.

Google Books Link:  Shoretown

• Keansburg, Images of America, is part of a series documenting life in small towns across New Jersey.  The author Randall Gabrielan does a decent job of documenting life in the town from its beginning to the period just before Word War II.

Google Books Link:  Keansburg