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Thompson's father, known as "Big Jim" Thompson, was a teacher for a decade in Burwell, Nebraska before his son's birth; his wife and Jim's mother, Birdie Myers, was a former student. He moved the family to Anadarko , Oklahoma Territory, and was elected sheriff of Caddo County .
Jim Thompson was born in Greenville, Delaware in 1906. [2] He was the youngest of five children of Henry and Mary Wilson Thompson.His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer; his mother was the daughter of James Harrison Wilson (1837–1925), a noted Union general during the American Civil War.
The remains, without the skull, were discovered by Orang Asli settlers in a grave at the edge of a vegetable plot off the main road in Brinchang. [20] [21]Philip J. Rivers, a master mariner, said he learned of the discovery from a health officer while researching Thompson's disappearance in 2007.
While he retained his U.S. citizenship, Thompson is a permanent resident of Hong Kong, where he has lived since 1978 with his wife Sally, who is a British national. Thompson's daughter Jennifer serves as Crown's Group CEO. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children. Thompson also has a son, James III, who has 3 daughters ...
Jim Thompson (writer) (1906–1977), American author and screenwriter, known for his pulp crime fiction Jimmy Thompson (comics artist) (1907–1949), Canadian artist in the Golden Age of Comics James D. Thompson (1920–1973), American sociologist, author of Organizations in Action
Eventually Thompson found that soliciting and sales were much more profitable, and he became a very effective salesman for the small company. In 1877, Thompson bought the agency for $500 (~$14,246 in 2023 terms [2]) and renamed it J. Walter Thompson Company. Thompson paid $800 for the Carlton and Smith furniture in the same transaction.
Wild Town is a crime novel by Jim Thompson, published in 1957. [1] It weaves together threads of murder, embezzlement , blackmail , and seduction in the post oil boom West Texas of the 1920s. The various locations (a hotel , the towns that grow around oil sites) and characters ( Bellboys , Sheriff , Oil Wildcatter ) are all highly influenced by ...
Bad Boy is a 1953 autobiography by Jim Thompson, an American crime novelist. [1] It covers his life during his youth in Texas and Oklahoma. Thompson's autobiography continues in the release of his book Roughneck (1954).