From the beginning, Jim Thompson knew he was going to catch hell no matter what he did.
Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet(1955), and The Grifters (1963)..
Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory).
Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals.
He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detectivewhen he was only fourteen.
About the Author: Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma.
From his rabble-rousing adolescence in the American Midwest, to wasted teenage years in the seedy underbelly of the hotel industry, to Thompson\'s chilling encounter with the real-life inspiration of THE KILLER INSIDE ME, BAD BOY offers a fascinating glimpse at the formative years of the man who would become one of the most famous authors of modern American Noir, in the autobiography-as-novel that follows the birth of the legend himself in the signature style Thompson made famous.
And during a childhood spent at the mercy of a father whose schemes put him on the wrong side of the law as often as the right, and a grandfather who knew the bad parts of town like the back of his hand, young Jim learned sin better than any writer had before.
From the beginning, Jim Thompson knew he was going to catch hell no matter what he did
