Jim Thompson
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About
An American author and screenwriter of pulp crime fiction, he is best known for titles such as The Killer Inside Me and Savage Night. He became posthumously known for his Black Lizard crime novel series.
Before Fame
Before becoming a writer, he worked as an oil field laborer and began an unsuccessful independent oil drilling operation.
Trivia
He was influenced by the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Family Life
With his wife, Alberta Hesse, he had three children.
Associated With
He wrote the screenplay for the Stanley Kubrick film, The Killing.
