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James Crumley. James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008) [2] [3] [4] was an American author. He was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", [5 ...
- American
- Author
- One to Count Cadence, The Last Good Kiss, The Mexican Tree Duck
- hardboiled detective crime
Sep 20, 2008 · James Arthur Crumley was born on Oct. 12, 1939, in Three Rivers, Tex. His father worked in the oilfields. Growing up, James Crumley later said, he “knew what it was to wear feed-sack shirts and ...
Sep 17, 2008 · Crumley, who was born in Three Rivers, Texas, grew up in south Texas, where his father was an oil-field supervisor and his mother was a waitress. Crumley was a grade-A student and a football player, an offensive lineman, in high school. He attended the Georgia Institute of Te. James Arthur Crumley was the author of violent hardboiled crime ...
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- September 17, 2008
- October 12, 1939
Oct 3, 2023 · Described in his Washington Post obituary as “a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye,” Crumley, who died in 2008, is credited with reinvigorating the hard-boiled subgenre by ushering ...
Apr 18, 2024 · James Crumley (born Oct. 12, 1939, Three Rivers, Texas, U.S.—died Sept. 17, 2008, Missoula, Mont.) was an American writer of violent mystery novels whose vivid characterizations and sordid settings, amid the natural splendour of the western United States, transcend the conventions of the genre.
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Nov 14, 2008 · When the Texas-born novelist James Crumley died at age 68 on September 17, newspaper obituaries in Los Angeles, Washington, New York, and London all mentioned one of his sentences. The sentence ...
Sep 21, 2008 · Crumley, who has died aged 68, grew up in south Texas, but is most closely associated with his adopted home town of Missoula, Montana. After high school, he enlisted in the US army, then attended ...
