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James Crumley
American writer (1939-2008) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 68
James Arthur Crumley was an American author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays.
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He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. His book The Last Good Kiss has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years."
