RE: RARA-AVIS: Jim Thompson: Where'd He Go?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Kevin Burton Smith
> Hmmm... has anyone written (or can recommend) a really good biography on
> Thompson, something on the level of Tom Nolan's amazing Ross Macdonald
book
> a few years ago? Thompson's life, and his subsequent literary reevaluation
and
> rediscovery, would probably make for a very good read.

Robert Polito - Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson. Highly recommended.

There's another one...it has a gray dj...but I'll be damned if I can remember the title. Maybe someone else can. Either way, Polito's book is the one you want.

Ron C.

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