Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

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born
in Anadarko, Oklahoma, The United States
September 27, 1906

died
April 07, 1977

gender
male

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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.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 23,398 ratings · 1,479 reviews · 56 distinct works · Similar authors
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,977 ratings — published 1958 — 26 editions
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 1,398 ratings — published 1955 — 14 editions
A Hell of a Woman
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 1,222 ratings — published 1954 — 13 editions
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 731 ratings — published 1953 — 21 editions
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 635 ratings — published 1954 — 12 editions
The Kill-Off
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 463 ratings — published 1957 — 8 editions
The Nothing Man
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 1954 — 8 editions
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