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  1. Jim Thompson was an American author known for his hardboiled crime fiction. His works include 'The Killer Inside Me' and 'Pop. 1280', and he is often regarded as one of the greatest crime writers of the 20th century.

  2. Jim Thompson Books Noted for his hardboiled crime novels, Oklahoma native Jim Thompson (1906-1977) began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective at age 14. Thompson eventually wrote 29 novels and co-wrote two screenplays.

  3. Jim Thompson. (James Meyers Thompson) ( 1906 - 1977) Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. After an itinerant childhood during which his sheriff father was driven from office for embezzlement; and as a roughneck in the Texan oil fields of the 1920s, Thompson's leftist leanings were galvanized, leading to his membership of the Wobblies ...

  4. 16 October 1964. Kentucky, United States. Died. 2 August 2014. (2014-08-02) (aged 49) Lahti, Finland. James Thompson (16 October 1964 – 2 August 2014) was an American-Finnish crime writer based in Helsinki. He had a master's degree in English philology from The University of Helsinki, where he also studied Finnish, in which he was fluent.

  5. Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detectivewhen he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals.

  6. Oct 1, 1996 · Polito wrote a masterpiece on the subjetc. Impressive book for all who whant to decipher who was the incredible writer Jim Thompson. Plus the writer includes fragmentary notes of lost papers, and of books written by Jimmy now out of print, lots of pictures, newspapers notices's...It is a great book ( and a big one: 500 pages!).

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  7. Sep 1, 1997 · 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.