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James Myers Thompson (Sep 27, 1906 – Apr 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 the 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. In the late 1980s, several of his novels were re-published in the Black Lizard series of re-discovered crime fiction.

His best-regarded works include The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop. 1280. In these works, Thompson turned the derided crime genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and the quasi-surrealistic inner narratives of the last thoughts of his dying or dead characters. A number of Thompson's books were adapted as popular films, including The Getaway and The Grifters.

The writer R.V. Cassill has suggested that of all crime fiction, Thompson's was the rawest and most harrowing; that neither Dashiell Hammett nor Raymond Chandler nor Horace McCoy ever "wrote a book within miles of Thompson". Similarly, in the introduction to Now and on Earth, Stephen King says he most admires Thompson's work because "The guy was over the top. The guy was absolutely over the top. Big Jim didn't know the meaning of the word stop. There are three brave 'lets' inherent in the foregoing: He let himself see everything, he let himself write it down, then he let himself publish it."

Thompson was called a "Dimestore Dostoevsky" by writer Geoffrey O'Brien. Film director Stephen Frears, who directed an adaptation of Thompson's The Grifters in 1990, also identified elements of Greek tragedy in his themes.

Thompson's stories are about grifters, losers, sociopaths and psychopaths—some at the fringe of society, some at its heart—their nihilistic worldview being best served by first-person narratives revealing a frighteningly deep understanding of the warped mind. There are few good guys in Thompson's literature: most of his characters are abusive or simply biding time until an opportunity presents itself, though many also have decent impulses.

Despite some positive critical notice, only after his best years as a writer did Thompson achieve a measure of fame. Yet that neglect might stem from his style: the crime novels are fast-moving and compelling but sometimes sloppy and uneven. Thompson wrote quickly (many novels were written in a month); using his newspaper experience to write concise, evocative prose with little editing.

Two of Thompson's books (The Getaway and The Killer Inside Me) were adapted as Hollywood motion pictures during his lifetime receiving relatively poor reviews. However, Polito argues that neither adaptation was ultimately true to Thompson's spirit. A second, more faithful adaptation of The Killer Inside Me was released in 2010, starring Casey Affleck and directed by Michael Winterbottom.

French director Bertrand Tavernier adapted Pop. 1280 for his 1981 film Coup de Torchon, changing the setting from the American South to a French colony in West Africa in the 1930s. Aside from the shift in setting, Polito argues that Coup de Torchon was remarkably faithful to the plot and the spirit of the novel, and—along with the 1990 film The Grifters—remains arguably the most authentic adaptation of any of Thompson's work.

Novels:

  1. Now and On Earth (1942)

  2. Heed The Thunder (1946)

  3. Nothing More Than Murder (1949)

  4. Cropper's Cabin (1952)

  5. The Killer Inside Me (1952)

  6. The Alcoholics (1953)

  7. Bad Boy (1953)

  8. The Criminal (1953)

  9. Recoil (1953)

  10. Savage Night (1953)

  11. The Golden Gizmo (1954)

  12. A Hell Of A Woman (1954)

  13. The Nothing Man (1954)

  14. Roughneck (1954)

  15. A Swell-Looking Babe (1954)

  16. After Dark, My Sweet (1955)

  17. The Kill-Off (1957)

  18. Wild Town (1957)

  19. The Getaway (1959)

  20. The Transgressors (1961)

  21. The Grifters (1963)

  22. Pop. 1280 (1964)

  23. Texas By The Tail (1965)

  24. South Of Heaven (1967)

  25. King Blood (1973)

  26. The Rip-Off (1989)

Collections:

  Fireworks (1988)

Short Stories:

  1. Bellboy - Blood From A Turnip

  2. The Car in the Mexican Quarter

  3. The Cellini Chalice

  4. The Flaw In The System