Louis E. Boone (1941 - ) is a United States academic author . His works cover contemporary business and economics. His most famous works include university-level texts Contemporary Marketing and Contemporary Business (both with David L. Kurtz ). He lives in Mobile, Alabama, United States where he is the emeritus professor of business at the University of South Alabama. He also owns a collection of Barbizon art - one of the most extensive in the United States, and now part of the collection of the Mobile Museum of Art .