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	Jim Thompson
		Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays and novels of the pulp fiction kind.
		Thompson's books are populated by grifters[?], losers[?] and psychopaths, some on the fringes of society, some in the very heart of it.
		Thompson died after a series of strokes at age 71, from a combination of alcoholism and self-inflicted starvation.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ji/Jim_Thompson.html (455 words)

	Jim Thompson Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
		Thompson knew he was not destined for big success, but before he died he told his wife to protect his manuscripts and copyrights, anticipating posthumous fame.
		Thompson's autobiography, BAD BOY, appeared in 1953 and depicts his chaotic coming of age, bootlegging, and how he almost got himself beaten to death by a homicidal sheriff's deputy.
		Several of Thompson's stories are set in the deep South, moving in the similar atmosphere of decay and the macabre as William Faulkner in his novels.
	www.litweb.net /biography/465/Jim_Thompson.html (855 words)

	Jim Thompson
		Thompson's focus is clearly on Roy as the only one of the three who stands any chance of redemption.
		Thompson's novels depict a world, which is populated by barflies, grifters, losers, psychopaths and where nothing is certain.
		Thompson finally leaves the couple at a hideout, which is a kind of prison, only much worse.
	www.topmystery.com /authors/JimThompson.htm (1086 words)

	MovieMaker Magazine \| Archives
		A sad case in point was the brilliant pulp-fiction writer Jim Thompson, whose talent, at least on the surface, seemed born to the screen.
		Thompson's ear for dialogue, honed from his years as a wildcatter in the West Texas oil fields, had caught the young Kubrick's eye.
		Yet as the sole screenwriter for Kubrick's breakthrough effort, Jim Thompson received only the meager credit of "additional dialogue." Although he would write three screenplays and a novella for the Kubrick-Harris team, The Killing was to be the first in a string of film-world indignities inflicted on Jim Thompson's eager and gentle spirit.
	www.moviemaker.com /magazine/editorial.php?id=291 (3325 words)

	Cigarettes And Alchohol: The Extraordinary Life of Jim Thompson by Charles Waring
		Thompson's biographer also believes that this misinformation was probably promulgated by the novelist himself, who was not averse to mythologizing his past in order to gain favourable publicity.
		Thompson's accomplishments during the 1930s were many and varied: in 1938, he wrote and performed in a radio play as part of the Prairie Playhouse series and for a short time, he also became a political speech writer (for his sister's husband).
		Jim Thompson's anxieties seemed to manifest themselves in the febrile imaginings of the book which is generally regarded as representing his final classic novel.
	www.crimetime.co.uk /features/jimthompson.php (7065 words)

	Psycho Killer
		Thompson was a master of the psycho's-eye-view monologue; the world as seen through a killer's warped gaze.
		Before Thompson was a year old, his fabled lawman dad was on the run, high-tailing it to Mexico after investigators found he had padded his $1,500 salary with some $31,000 in "expenses." He would later gain a small fortune in oil and squander it on living well.
		Thompson published some reportedly so-so novels early on, but didn't turn to crime fiction until he was in his forties.
	www.scpronet.com /point/9603/p14.html (1783 words)

	Amazon.ca: Savage Night: Books: Jim Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jim Thompson is one of America's great hardboiled/noir writers, and there will never be another writer like him.
		Thompson's reputation has always gotten in the way of me wanting to read him and I was scared of the possibility of my being disappointed.....
		Thompson was famous for his nihilistic endings, and it's hard to beat this one.
	www.amazon.ca /Savage-Night-Jim-Thompson/dp/0679733108 (950 words)

	Jim Thompson (writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thompson was best-known for more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications of pulp fiction houses printed between the late 1940s and mid 1950s.
		One biographical profile reports that "Thompson quickly adapted to the needs of the hotel's guests, busily catering to tastes ranging from questionable morality to directly and undeniably illegal." Bootleg liquor was ubiquitous, and Thompson's brief trips to procure heroin and marijuana for hotel patrons were not uncommon.
		Thompson drank heavily for most of his life, and alcoholism was often featured in his works, perhaps most prominently in The Alchoholics (1953), set in a detox facility.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Thompson_(writer) (2605 words)

	Videobot
		Though Thompson's novels appeared toward the end of film noir's first heyday, it would be a while before any of them were made into movies -- his dark and despairing vision was simply too grim for '50s cinema.
		Specifically, Thompson elaborated on a minor part of the novel, a relationship between the pathetic patsy George (Elisha Cook Jr.) and his voraciously cheating wife Sherry (Marie Windsor).
		Here the writer's contribution is less apparent, though according to Polito he is responsible for the cynical banter of the scapegoated soldiers awaiting execution.
	www.metrotimes.com /movies/bot/18/12.html (744 words)

	James Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Thompson (martyr) (died 1582), a Catholic priest hanged under Elizabeth I
		James Thompson (fighter) (born 1978), a professional mixed martial arts fighter from England.
		James Thompson (jurist) (1806-1874), a congressman and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Thompson (264 words)

	Books of the poet: Jim Thompson - book works writings work
		Thompson has Lou Ford freely reveal his homicidal thoughts to the reader, while the other characters, at least most of them, are completely taken in by his hayseed demeanor and his aw shucks way of speaking.
		Thompson uses real life examples from youth through professional, where focusing on the positive, correcting the negative, and focus on improving have helped teams be successful.
		Thompson was from Oklahoma and, as he knows the surrounding areas intimately, his novels seem to take place in the American South and Southwest.
	www.poemhunter.com /jim-thompson/books (2997 words)

	NCW--What the Critics Say About Jim Thompson
		At thirteen Jim Thompson was learning how to smoke cigars and ogle burlesque girls under the tutelage of his profane grandfather.
		And when Jim Thompson chronicles their life and times, the result suggest Willa Cather steeped in rotgut — and armed with a.45.
		In Savage Night Jim Thompson negotiates hairpin plot reversals and nightmarish shifts of identity with the daring of a race-car driver whipping through the Indianapolis 500.
	mockingbird.creighton.edu /ncw/jthocrit.htm (1610 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Jim Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bio: Jim Thompson, one of the great masters of noir fiction, was born in 1906 in Anadarko, Oklahoma.
		Thompson's classic novel describes the underworld of desperate men that inhabited the part of Texas known as "South of Heaven" in the 1920's.
		Roughneck is pulp noir master Jim Thompson's quasi-autobiography of the wandering wild days of one of America's wildest wandering authors.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/JimThompsoneBooks.htm (1104 words)

	Jim Thompson - Biography - Moviefone
		An influential crime novelist of the "hardboiled" school, Jim Thompson collaborated on the screenplays for Stanley Kubrick's The Killing and Paths of Glory.
		A number of Thompson novels were adapted for the screen, including The Getaway (1972) and The Killer Inside Me (1976).
		The writer's career in later years was impaired by drinking problems, and by the time of his death in 1977, he had been all but forgotten in his home country.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/jim-thompson/175901/biography (177 words)

	Jim Thompson
		Thompson had started writing for magazines in the 1920s, but in the 1940s he turned to crime fiction as a way of making money.
		Thompson's autobiography, BAD BOY (1953), was about his chaotic coming of age, bootlegging, and how he almost got himself beaten to death by a homicidal sheriff's deputy.
		Several of Thompson's stories are set in the deep South, where he moved in a similar atmosphere of decay and the macabre as William Faulkner in his novels.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /jthompso.htm (1527 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Now and On Earth by Jim Thompson
		These are the ingredients of Jim Thompson's devastating and eerily autobiographical first novel.
		Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals.
		An outstanding crime writer, the world of his fiction is rife with violence and corruption.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679740131 (215 words)

	Jim Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Much of Thompson's life is obscure, but his birth in Anadarko, Oklahoma, and younger years as a "hotel worker, plumber's helper, truck driv er, pipeliner, roustabout and harvest hand" seem certain.
		Thompson was celebrated by French critics and the subject of a renaissance in U.S. interest around 1990.
		Thompson's way with violence and his experience in Hollywood made him useful to movie-makers in the glory days of gore in the 1970s and 80s.
	www.case.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Thompson.HTM (847 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Manifesto for the Dead by Domenic Stansberry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pulp writer Jim Thompson is slowly sinking into the depths of despair.
		As Jim begins to write, he realizes that instead of him writing the script, the script seems to be writing his life.
		Jim finds the body of a young woman, only to learn it was meant to be the starlet who may be standing in the way of the production of the movie.
	www.themysteryreader.com /stansberry-manifesto.html (325 words)

	Bangkok Thailand Jim Thompson journal Harold Stephens Bangkok Post
		Jim Thompson is by far the best known postwar legend in Asia.
		Jim Thompson was successful, rich, world known, and to all outward appearances, contented with his way of life.
		At present the Jim Thompson story, titled "Silk Knot" is being filmed in a ten-part television series by the National Broadcasting Corporation and will be debuting on ITV shortly.
	www.angelfire.com /trek/elephantspike/jimthompson1.html (954 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE KILLER INSIDE ME by Jim Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jim Thompson brilliantly created a first-person voice for Lou Ford, rooting deep inside the warped psyche of this distinctive character to tell his story.
		Jim Thompson wrote The Killer Inside Me in 1952 for Lion Books, a publisher of paperback originals.
		Lion gave him a synopsis to work from, but Thompson radically changed the formula to his own, and astonished his publisher by writing the book in four weeks.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/killer_inside_me.asp (580 words)

	Amazon.ca: Roughneck: Books: Jim Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Another of Thompson's autobiographical titles and supposedly true, fans know that half of this is inseparable from his crime writings.
		Follow Thompson through early adulthood, marriage, fatherhood(his description of his own children is hysterical), hobo jungles and more.
		He goes through stints as a collector, baker, morgue employee, writer of the labor history for the W.P.A., etc. You will love the story behind the writing and publishing of Thompson's first novel(Now and On Earth).
	www.amazon.ca /Roughneck-Jim-Thompson/dp/0445406739 (461 words)

	Jim Thompson
		Thompson began his career as a more "traditional" writer, publishing his first two novels, Now and on Earth and Heed the Thunder as hardbacks.
		Thompson's best known novel is The Killer Inside Me, the story of a doomed smalltown sheriff unable to control his bloodlust as circumstances force him to kill and kill again.
		Savage Art: a Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito, was published by Knopf in 1995.
	www.eskimo.com /~noir/btitles/thompson/index.shtml (461 words)

	The Museum Shop
		Internationally recognized and a familiar face on the world biennale/triennale circuit, Arahmaiani, one of Indonesia’s foremost contemporary visual and performance artists, was in Bangkok in June 2006 to stage a new project in collaboration with Jim Thompson.
		For the project, five artists were invited to stay in Bangkok to conduct research on the Jim Thompson House and those aspects of Thai culture represented by the silk industry.
		The results of this collaboration were presented in the form of an exhibition at the Art Center at the Jim Thompson House in Bangkok from March 31 to June 30, 2005.
	www.jimthompsonhouse.com /museum_shop/content02.asp (1922 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : The Grifters : Main
		Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of...
		Of the several movies made in the 1990s that mined the original material of writer Jim Thompson, Stephen Frears' The Grifters was easily the best.
		Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/14448/moviemain.jhtml (135 words)

	NCW--Jim Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born in an apartment above the Caddo County jail in Anadarko, Oklahoma, in 1906, JIM THOMPSON is a Nebraska writer by virtue of his two years of education at the University of Nebraska (BA) and the time he spent living in the state with his wife, Alberta Hesse.
		Thompson began his writing career as a reporter for the New York Daily News and Los Angeles Times Mirror.
		Thompson loudly proclaims that he is damned and proud of it." Harlan Ellison praises his work as "pure American writing at its best.
	mockingbird.creighton.edu /ncw/thompson.htm (289 words)

	PERE UBU
		My goal was to create the Jim Thompson novel that Jim Thompson never wrote.
		From the sonic legerdemain of the moody "Stolen Cadillac" to the propulsive drumming that powers "Texas Overture," the disc bears out Thomas's assertion that the band was able to capture the flinty hardness of Thompson's work without sacrificing the melodic intrigue that's always been a part of Pere Ubu.
		That appraisal might seem unduly pessimistic, given the plaudits Ubu has garnered over the years, but Thomas puts forward the notion that he -- and by extension, his compatriots -- are "doomed" to exist in an odd limbo, one independent of both pop culture and carefully-constructed counter-culture.
	www.billions.com /artists/pereubu (985 words)

	Special Events
		Distinguished art critics, writers and specialists on women's contemporary arts, particularly in the Asia/Pacific region will participate.
		Opened in December 2003, The Art Center at the Jim Thompson House is located in the same compound as the Jim Thompson Museum.
		The exhibition is curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong, an independent, Chiangmai-based curator, and was made possible through the support of the Thai Silk Company.
	www.jimthompsonhouse.com /events/temporary.asp (508 words)

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