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Jim Thompson

American prose writer and screenwriter
James Myers Thompson 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... Wikipedia
Born: September 27, 1906, Anadarko, OK
Died: April 7, 1977 (age 70 years), Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Spouse: Alberta Hesse (m. 1931–1977)
Place of burial: Pacific Ocean
Genre: Crime fiction, hardboiled, pulp, autobiography, suspense, literary fiction