Don Bolles

Don Bolles
Bust of Bolles in the Clarendon Hotel, an exhibit dedicated to Don Bolles
Born	Donald Fifield Bolles (1928-07-10)July 10, 1928 Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Died	June 13, 1976(1976-06-13) (aged 47) Phoenix, Arizona
Education	Beloit College, B.Sc., 1950
Occupation	Journalist
Notable credit(s)	The Arizona Republic
Children	Seven from two marriages

Don Bolles (July 10, 1928 – June 13, 1976) was an American investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic whose murder in a car bombing has been linked to his coverage of the mafia.

Donald Fifield Bolles grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, and attended Teaneck High School, graduating in the class of 1946. He pursued a newspaper career, in the footsteps of his father (chief of the Associated Press bureau in New Jersey) and grandfather. He graduated from Beloit College with a degree in government, where he was editor of the campus newspaper, and received a President's Award for personal achievement. After a stint in the United States Army in the Korean War assigned to an anti-aircraft unit, he joined the Associated Press as a sports editor and rewriter in New York, New Jersey and Kentucky.

In 1962 he was hired by the Arizona Republic newspaper, published at the time by Eugene C. Pulliam, where he quickly found a spot on the investigative beat and gained a reputation for dogged reporting of influence peddling, bribery, and land fraud. Former colleagues say he seemed to grow disillusioned about his job in late 1975 and early 1976, and that he had requested to be taken off the investigative beat, moving to coverage of Phoenix City Hall and then the state Legislature.

Bolles was the brother of Richard Nelson Bolles, author of the best-selling job-hunting book What Color is Your Parachute? He shares a grandfather, Stephen Bolles, with humanist theoretician Edmund Blair Bolles. He was married twice and had a total of seven children. His daughter, Frances Bolles Haynes, has co-authored four books on job hunting.