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James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American prose writer and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction . Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications, published from the late-1940s through mid-1950s.
Aug 6, 2020 · Cold War. Authors. Heroes. Psychopath. The author’s novels, famous for their bleakly sociopathic depiction of American culture, testify to the insanity and abusiveness that surround us.
- The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson.
- The Grifters by Jim Thompson, Andre Dubus III (Foreward)
- Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson.
- Getaway by Jim Thompson, Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword)
Jim Thompson (born Sept. 27, 1906, Anadarko, Okla., U.S.—died April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, Calif.) was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his paperback pulp novels narrated by seemingly normal men who are revealed to be psychopathic.
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- April 7, 1977
- September 27, 1906
- The Killer Inside Me.
- The Grifters by Jim Thompson, Andre Dubus III (Foreward)
- Pop. 1280.
- Getaway by Jim Thompson, Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword)
The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications. In the introduction to the anthology Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, it is described as "one of the most blistering and uncompromising crime novels ever written."
Dec 27, 2021 · In THE KILLER INSIDE ME, Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime ...
