James Crumley

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James Crumley (born October 12, 1939 in Three Rivers , Texas , † September 17, 2008 in Missoula , Montana ) was an American writer mainly of crime novels .

Life

James Crumley grew up in southern Texas, studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology on a Navy scholarship , but then went to the Philippines from 1958 to 1961 as a US Army soldier . He then graduated with the help of a football scholarship from the Texas College of Arts and Industries in Kingsville , Texas, a degree, which he graduated in 1964 with a BA in history. He then completed another degree ( creative writing ) at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa .

His first novel, One to Count Cadence , The Story of a Soldier in the Vietnam War , was published in 1969. The poet Richard Hugo introduced him to the work of Raymond Chandler in the early 1970s , which made a lasting impression on Crumley, so that he - beginning with The Wrong Case (1975) - only wrote crime fiction.

Crumley has taught at the University of Montana in Missoula and as a visiting professor at various other universities. He lived in Missoula since the mid-1980s. He was married five times, most recently to the poet Martha Elizabeth, and had five children.

Works

  • 1969 One to Count Cadence (novel)
  • 1975 The Wrong Case
    • Beautiful women don't lie, German by Thorsten Tornow; Piper, Munich, Zurich 1998. ISBN 3-492-25691-0
  • 1978 The Last Good Kiss (novel)
  • 1983 The Dancing Bear (novel)
    • Kerle, Kanonen und Kokain, German by Friedrich A. Hofschuster; Goldmann, Munich 1985. ISBN 3-442-04965-2
    • also as: The dancing bear, same translation; Goldmann, Munich 1989. ISBN 3-442-04965-2
  • 1984 The Muddy Fork (novel)
  • 1987 The Pigeon Shoot (screenplay)
  • 1988 Whores (short stories)
  • 1991 The Muddy Fork & Other Things (essays and short prose)
  • 1993 The Mexican Tree Duck (novel)
  • 1996 Bordersnakes (novel)
    • Everyone digs his own grave, by Thorsten Tornow; Piper, Munich, Zurich 1998. ISBN 3-492-25677-5
  • 1998 The Mexican Pig Bandit (novel)
  • 2000 The Putt at the End of the World (multi-author novel, Crumley wrote chapter 9)
  • 2001 The Final Country (novel)
  • 2005 The Right Madness (novel)

Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Crumley, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Three Rivers (Texas)
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 2008
Place of death Missoula , Montana