James Crumley
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| - | {{Template}}'''James A. Crumley''' (born [[12 October]] [[1939]] in [[Three Rivers, Texas]]) is the author of violent [[hardboiled]] [[crime fiction|crime novels]] and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. His novels ''The Mexican Tree Duck'', ''The Last Good Kiss'', and ''The Right Madness'' feature the character C.W. Sughrue, an ex-army officer turned [[private investigator]]. ''The Wrong Case'', ''Dancing Bear'' and ''The Final Country'' feature a [[Private investigator|PI]] named Milo Milodragovitch. ''Bordersnakes'' brings both characters together. | + | {{Template}} |
| - | ''The Mexican Tree Duck'' won the 1994 [[Dashiell Hammett]] Award, given by the North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers for the best literary crime novel. (However, despite claims made on a number of websites, Crumley does not seem to have been either a winner or a nominee for a [[Mystery Writers of America]] [[Edgar Award]] for ''The Last Good Kiss'' or any other novel.) | + | '''James A. Crumley''' ([[12 October]] [[1939]] - [[17 September]] [[2008]]) was the author of violent [[hardboiled]] [[crime fiction|crime novels]] and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. His novels ''The Mexican Tree Duck'', ''The Last Good Kiss'', and ''The Right Madness'' feature the character C.W. Sughrue, an ex-army officer turned [[private investigator]]. ''The Wrong Case'', ''Dancing Bear'' and ''The Final Country'' feature a [[Private investigator|P.I.]] named Milo Milodragovitch. ''Bordersnakes'' brings both characters together. Crumley said of his two characters: "Milo's first impulse is to help you; Sughrue's is to shoot you in the foot." |
| - | Crumley co-wrote the screenplay for the film ''The Far Side of Jericho'', which was in post-production in April 2006. He worked on a number of drafts of the screenplay for the adaptation of the [[comic strip]] [[Judge Dredd]], though none of his ideas were used in the film itself. His commissioned but unproduced screenplay for the film ''The Pigeon Shoot'' was published in a limited edition. | + | The detective "Crumley" in [[Ray Bradbury]]'s trilogy of mystery novels (''[[Death Is a Lonely Business]]'', ''[[A Graveyard for Lunatics]]'', and ''[[Let's All Kill Constance]]'') is named in tribute to him. |
| - | Crumley's book ''Whores'' contains short stories, and his ''Muddy Fork and Other Things'' has short fiction and essays. | ||
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| - | Crumley grew up in south Texas, and was a grade-A student and a football player in high school. He attended the [[Georgia Institute of Technology]] on a [[U.S. Navy|Navy]] [[Reserve Officers' Training Corps|ROTC]] scholarship, but left to serve in the [[U.S. Army]] from 1958 to 1961. He then attended the [[Texas A&M University-Kingsville|Texas College of Arts and Industries]] on a football scholarship, where he received his [[B.A.]] degree with a major in history in 1964. He earned a [[Master of Fine Arts]] degree in creative writing at the [[University of Iowa]] in 1966. In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.<ref>“Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” January 30, 1968 ''New York Post''</ref> His master's [[thesis]] was later published as the Vietnam War novel ''One Count to Cadence'' in 1969. Crumley served on the English faculty of the University of Montana at Missoula, and as a visiting professor at a number of other colleges. He has lived in [[Missoula, Montana]] since the mid-1980s. | ||
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| - | The detective "Crumley" in [[Ray Bradbury]]'s trilogy of mystery novels (''[[Death Is a Lonely Business]]'', ''[[A Graveyard for Lunatics]]'', and ''[[Let's All Kill Constance]]'') is named in tribute to him. | ||
| - | It is believed that Crumley finds a lot inspiration for his novel at [[Charlies Bar]] in [[Missoula, MT]]. A regular there, he has many longstanding friends who have been characters in his books. | ||
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| *''One to Count Cadence'' (1969) - novel | *''One to Count Cadence'' (1969) - novel | ||
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James A. Crumley (12 October 1939 - 17 September 2008) was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. His novels The Mexican Tree Duck, The Last Good Kiss, and The Right Madness feature the character C.W. Sughrue, an ex-army officer turned private investigator. The Wrong Case, Dancing Bear and The Final Country feature a P.I. named Milo Milodragovitch. Bordersnakes brings both characters together. Crumley said of his two characters: "Milo's first impulse is to help you; Sughrue's is to shoot you in the foot."
The detective "Crumley" in Ray Bradbury's trilogy of mystery novels (Death Is a Lonely Business, A Graveyard for Lunatics, and Let's All Kill Constance) is named in tribute to him.
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List of works
- One to Count Cadence (1969) - novel
- The Wrong Case (1975) - novel, Milo series
- The Last Good Kiss (1978) - novel, Sughrue series
- Dancing Bear (1983) - novel, Milo series
- Pigeon Shoot (1987) - unproduced screenplay, limited edition
- Whores (1988) - short stories
- Muddy Fork and Other Things (1991) - short fiction and essays
- The Mexican Tree Duck (1993) - novel, Sughrue series, winner 1994 Dashiell Hammettt Award
- Bordersnakes (1996) - novel, Sughrue and Milo series
- The Putt at the End of the World (2000) - collaborative novel
- The Final Country (2001) - novel, Milo series
- The Right Madness (2005) - novel, Sughrue series
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