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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author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays.
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.
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 ...
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.
Year Author Title Result Ref. 1991 Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob: Winner [5] Jerome Charyn: Elsinore: Finalist Norman Mailer: Harlot’s Ghost: Finalist Paul West: The Women of Whitechapel & Jack the Ripper: Finalist Robertson Davies: Murther & Walking Spirits: Finalist 1992 Alice Hoffman: Turtle Moon: Winner [5] Daniel Woodrell: The Ones You Do ...
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 ...
He and Ruth Rendell are the only ones to win in this category two years in a row. Joan Fleming is the first female to win two awards. Anthony Price is the first writer to win both the Gold and Silver Daggers. P.D. James and Peter Lovesey win a record three Silver Daggers. James also won the most Silver Daggers as the author who never won a Gold ...
Author Title 1 John Dunning: Booked to Die: 2 James Ellroy: White Jazz: 3 Peter Lovesey: The Summons: 4 Dick Francis: Come To Grief: 5 James Crumley: The Mexican Tree Duck: 6 Joe R. Lansdale: Two-Bear Mambo: 7 Michael Connelly: The Last Coyote: 8 P. D. James: Original Sin: 9 Lorenzo Carcaterra: Sleepers: 10 John le Carré: Our Game