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James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008) [2] [3] [4] was an American author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays.
January 1 – In the UK's 2008 New Year Honours List, Hanif Kureishi (CBE), Jenny Uglow (OBE), Peter Vansittart (OBE) and Debjani Chatterjee (MBE) are all rewarded for "services to literature." February 29 – Belgian-born " Misha Defonseca " admits that her bestselling Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years (1997) is a literary forgery .
Crumley may refer to: Bob Crumley (1876–1949), Scottish professional footballer; James Crumley (1939–2008), American author; James Crumley (footballer) (1890–1981), Scottish footballer; Jim Crumley (Scottish author) (born 1947), Scottish journalist; Patrick Crumley (1860–1922), Irish Nationalist UK Member of the Parliament
This is a list of crime writers with a Wikipedia page. They may include the authors of any subgenre of crime fiction, including detective, mystery or hard-boiled.Some of these may overlap with the List of thriller authors.
When you think of wealthy people, writers might not be the first to come to mind. Yet entertaining readers with books can be remarkably lucrative for some authors. In fact, some of the richest ...
Most authors of whodunits, in which the puzzle-solving aspect predominates, are named exclusively as writers in the more specific subcategory of "mystery." Authors of crime fiction in which investigation and solution are nongermane (e.g., The Godfather , The Postman Always Rings Twice ) are named in the "crime fiction" category, but not as ...
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
Jim Crumley (born 1947) is a Scottish journalist, a former newspaper editor and regular columnist for the Dundee Courier and The Scots Magazine. [1] He is also the author of more than 40 books, mostly on the wildlife and wild landscapes of Scotland, many of them making the case for species reintroductions, or ‘rewilding’. [ 2 ]