Ah, okay -- got it. Jim Thompson: Sleep with the Devil, by Michael
McCauley, is the other one I reference below.
Again, though, stick with the Polito volume. It didn't win the National
Book Critics Circle Award for Biography for nothing.
Ron C.
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> Ron C.
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