Jim Thompson
Novelist, Author
1906 – 1977
Who was Jim Thompson?
James Myers Thompson was an American author and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction.
Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by houses, from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in The New York Times, he was little-recognized in his lifetime. Only after death did Thompson's literary stature grow, when in the late 1980s, several novels were re-published in the Black Lizard series of re-discovered crime fiction.
Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop. 1280. In these works, Thompson turned the derided crime genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and quasi-surrealistic inner narratives of the last thoughts of his dying or dead characters. A number of Thompson's books became popular films, including The Getaway and The Grifters.
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- Born
- Sep 27, 1906
Anadarko - Also known as
- James Myers Thompson
- James Thompson
- Dimestore Dostoevsky
- James Dillon
- Spouses
- Alberta Hesse
(1931/09/16 - 1977/04/07)
- Alberta Hesse
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Lived in
- Fort Worth
- Died
- Apr 7, 1977
Hollywood
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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