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Best of Joe R. Lansdale. He is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, thriller and suspense. Frequent features of Lansdale's writing are usually deeply ironic, strange or absurd situations or characters, such as Elvis and JFK battling a ...
Oct 27, 2022 · By crimefictionlover. 27 October, 2022. 3 Mins read. 0. 3509. 2. Across four decades, the Texan author Joe R Lansdale has been spinning dark tales. We love them. They’re full of desperate, dangerous villains, damaged heroes and heroines, wild schemes and unlikely hopes – all of it marinated in the author’s gentle sense of irony.
Feb 24, 2016 · Joe R. Lansdale grew up poor in east Texas and worked as a janitor and in a potato field before finding success as a writer. Honky Tonk Samurai is the latest book in his mystery series.
Jan 1, 2013 · Joe R. Lansdale's latest novels seem to all feature recently orphaned kids being chased by, or chasing, someone. It seems like the last few novels may have been rough drafts for this almost perfect turn-of-the-century tale that bears more than a little resemblance to True Grit. Having left their pox-plague East Texas town with their grandfather ...
Sep 10, 2013 · Joe R. Lansdale: I can’t answer that with certainty, but part of it is that my parents were older when I was born, my dad early forties, my mom late thirties. My dad was born in 1909, my mother ...
Aug 15, 2023 · Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series) returns to the piney, dangerous woods of East Texas.In this career retrospective of his best crime stories, Lansdale shows exactly why critics continue to compare him to Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Flannery O’Connor, and William Faulkner.
Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Lansdale, Joe R. 1951- (Joe Richard Lansdale, Ray Slater)PERSONAL:Born October 28, 1951, in Gladewater, TX; son of Alcee Bee (a mechanic) and Reta (in sales) Lansdale; married Cassie Ellis, June 25, 1970 (divorced, 1972); married Karen Ann Morton, August 25, 1973; children: (second marriage) Keith ...
