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The Legendary American: The Remarkable Career and Strange Disappearance of Jim Thompson. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-08302-4. Warren, William (1998). Jim Thompson: The Unsolved Mystery. Archipelago Press. ISBN 978-981-3018-82-2. Kurlantzick, Joshua (2011). The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War. Hoboken, NJ ...
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.
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 .
In 1981, Thompson moved to Key West, where he remained active in the community, according to the Monroe County Office of Veterans Affairs. In 1988, Thompson and a number of other former prisoners of war were awarded medals by President Ronald Reagan. In 1990, Thompson's son Jim was convicted of murder and imprisoned for sixteen years. [11]
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 ...
After Thompson's disappearance in Malaysia in 1967, the house came under the control of The James H. W. Thompson Foundation under the royal patronage of H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. The house is at 6 Soi Kasemsan 2, Rama 1 Road, Pathumwan, only a block away from Bangkok National Stadium; guided tours are available daily. [2] [1]
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 ...
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.