Jim 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 co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). 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).
"If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Cornell Woolrich would
have joined together in some ungodly union and produced a literary
offspring, Jim Thompson would be it...His work...casts a dazzling
light on the human condition."--Washington Post
"Like Clint Eastwood's pictures it's the stuff for rednecks,
truckers, failures, psychopaths and professors ... one of the
finest American writers and the most frightening, [Thompson] is on
best terms with the devil. Read Jim Thompson and take a tour of
hell."--The New Republic
"My favorite crime novelist-often imitated but never
duplicated."--Stephen King
"The best suspense writer going, bar none."--The New York Times
"The master of the American groin-kick novel."--Vanity Fair
"The most hard-boiled of all the American writers of crime
fiction."--Chicago Tribune
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