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This page is for journalists, book clubs, event organizers, and anyone seeking background information about Todd Boler and A Divided Life. Here you’ll find a brief author bio, a downloadable photo, and links to additional resources.

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Biography

Todd Boler is the author of A Divided Life, a memoir that explores identity, resilience, and the quiet battles that shape who we become. Drawing from lived experience, Todd writes with honesty and restraint, focusing on the emotional truths behind life’s defining moments and the ways people adapt in order to survive. His work speaks to readers who have felt torn between expectations and authenticity, strength and vulnerability, survival and meaning.

Rather than offering easy answers or dramatic conclusions, Todd writes with restraint and honesty about silence, endurance, and the long process of becoming whole. Through his writing, Todd seeks connection rather than spectacle—offering reflection, understanding, and the reminder that even fractured lives can carry purpose.

Todd Boler lives in Ohio and is a retired from professional work in the business world. A Divided Life is his first published work. When not writing, he enjoys singing, biking, cooking, and local volunteer work. 

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A Divided Life is a memoir about growing up gay in a small Midwestern town in the 70's and early 80's where survival meant learning to hide. Todd Boler’s story traces the long psychological cost of living divided—outwardly functioning, inwardly fractured. Rather than centering on a single dramatic coming-out, the book explores how silence, compartmentalization, and self-negotiation become strategies for endurance. Over time, these same strategies exact a price. Through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, Boler recounts friendships, faith, longing, and the quiet fatigue of managing oneself endlessly. The memoir does not assign blame or offer easy answers. Instead, it explores how coping mechanisms that once protected a person can eventually limit them, and how healing often arrives not as revelation or triumph, but as permission: the end of an internal argument, the beginning of living more honestly.

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