Jim Thompson (1) (1906–1977)
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American novelist and screenwriter Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma on September 27, 1906. In Fort Worth, Texas during prohibition, he worked as a bellboy at the Hotel Texas for two years where he earned up to $300 a week by supplying hotel patrons with bootleg liquor, heroin, and mostra altro marijuana. During the Depression, he worked with the Oklahoma Federal Writers Project and was a member of the Communist Party from 1935 to 1938. During World War II, he worked at an aircraft factory where he was investigated by the FBI for his Communist Party affiliation. His first novel, Now and on Earth, was published in 1942. He wrote more than thirty novels during his lifetime and most of them were paperback pulp crime novels. His best known works are The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman, and Pop. 1280. In 1955, he moved to Hollywood, California to write screenplays with Stanley Kubrick. Thompson helped write The Killing and Paths of Glory. He died after a series of strokes in Los Angeles, California on April 7, 1977. His long-time alcoholism and recent self-inflicted starvation contributed to his death. His death attracted little attention because none of his novels were in print in the U.S. at that time. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Jim Thompson
L'indice judiciaire 3 copie
The Cellini Chalice 3 copie
Nothing but a man 1 copia
ROMANZI 1 copia
The Frightening Frammis 1 copia
Opere correlate
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 183 copie
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense (2006) — Collaboratore — 72 copie
Murder Plus: True Crime Stories from the Masters of Detective Fiction (1958) — Collaboratore — 44 copie
Unusual Suspects: A New Anthology of Crime Stories from Black Lizard (1996) — Collaboratore — 39 copie
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Murder and Other Mishaps Anthology #27 (1989) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Thompson, Jim
- Nome legale
- Thompson, James Myers
- Altri nomi
- Dillon, James
- Data di nascita
- 1906-09-27
- Data di morte
- 1977-04-07
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Cremated, Ashes scattered
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Anadarko, Oklahoma, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- stroke
- Luogo di residenza
- Anadarko, Oklahoma, USA (birth)
Los Angeles, California, USA (death)
Fort Worth, Texas, USA - Istruzione
- University of Oklahoma
University of Nebraska - Attività lavorative
- novelist
screenwriter
journalist
bellboy
oil field laborer - Organizzazioni
- Oklahoma Federal Writers Project
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW. The Wobblies)
Communist Party USA (1935-38) - Breve biografia
- James Myers Thompson was a United States writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, largely in the hardboiled style of crime fiction.
Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction 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 pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism.
The writer R.V. Cassills has suggested that of all pulp fiction, Thompson's was the rawest and most harrowing; that neither Dashiell Hammett nor Raymond Chandler nor even Horace McCoy, author of the bleak They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, ever "wrote a book within miles of Thompson". [1] Similarly, in the introduction to Now and on Earth, Stephen King says he most admires Thompson's work because "The guy was over the top. The guy was absolutely over the top. Big Jim didn't know the meaning of the word stop. There are three brave lets inherent in the forgoing: he let himself see everything, he let himself write it down, then he let himself publish it."
Thompson admired Fyodor Dostoevsky and was nicknamed "Dimestore Dostoevsky" by writer Geoffrey O'Brien. Film director Stephen Frears, who directed an adaptation of Thompson's The Grifters as 1990's The Grifters, also identified elements of Greek tragedy in his themes.
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