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Jim Thompson titles available
from Vintage Crime/Black Lizard:
(1906 - 1977)
James Meyers Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction
at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was
only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of
which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also wrote two screenplays
(for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). An
outstanding crime writer, the world of his fiction is rife with violence and
corruption. In examining the underbelly of human experience and American society
in particular, Thompson's work at its best is both philosophical and
experimental. Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French
directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me
(1952), After Dark My Sweet (1955), and The Grifters (1963).
