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James Sallis |
 | James Sallis is a prolific man of letters. Author of the popular Lew Griffin novels (The Long-Legged Fly, Moth, Black Hornet, Eye of the Cricket, Bluebottle, and Ghost of a Flea), he has also written the avant-garde novel, Renderings, and the spy novel, Death Will Have Your Eyes, as well as more than one hundred short stories, poems, and essays. He has, in addition, written and edited a number of musicological studies and works of literary criticism, including The Guitar Players, Difficult Lives, a study of noir writers, and, most recently, Chester Himes: A Life, a biography of one of his literary heroes. A multi-faceted man of many talents, Jim has worked as a creative writing teacher, respiratory therapist, musician, music teacher, screenwriter, periodical editor (including a stint with the celebrated science fiction magazine New Worlds in the 1960s), book reviewer, and translator, winning acclaim for his 1993 version of Raymond Queneau`s Saint Glinglin. Jim was born in 1944 and spent his childhood in Helena, Arkansas, a rural town on the banks of the Mississippi River. Widely travelled, he has subsequently spent portions of his life as a resident of New Orleans, London, New York City, Boston, and Paris, among other cities. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife, Karyn. A former Tulane Scholar and Fellow, Jim donated his personal papers to the New Orleans university`s special collections in 1999. Jim has been shortlisted for the Anthony, Nebula, Edgar, Shamus, and Gold Dagger awards. |
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