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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 .
Floyd James "Jim" Thompson (July 8, 1933 – July 16, 2002) was a United States Army colonel. He was one of the longest-held American prisoners of war , spending nearly nine years in captivity in the forests and mountains of South Vietnam , Laos , and North Vietnam during the Vietnam War .
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 ...
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 ...
The Kill-Off is an American crime novel by Jim Thompson first published in 1957, and reprinted by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard in 1999. The novel is a bleak tale of murder in a small, dying resort town being torn apart by gossip, racism, incest (actual or alleged), alcoholism and financial difficulties. It was adapted into a film in 1990. [1] [2]
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]