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| James Sallis
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'I was born a writer: as a child I would write stories, sketches, comics and so forth. At the same time, I caught the reading bug. The first book I ever read was Robert Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters. And I’ve never stopped reading since.”
In 1992, cult writer James Sallis began a series of noir novels set in New Orleans, about African-American private investigator Lew Griffin. In 2003 he began a new series, a trilogy (for now) featuring John Turner, an ex-cop/ex-con/ex-therapist seeking refuge in a cabin in the woods outside Cripple Creek, a small town in Tennessee. He spends his days trying and hoping to be forgotten by the world, running away from the ghosts of his past that resurface every so often in order to be exorcised. But Turner also evolves over the course of the three novels: Cypress Grove, Cripple Creek and Salt River.
James Sallis, (Helena, Arkansas, 1944) studied at Tulane University in New Orleans and lived in London and throughout the US (New York, Boston, Pennsylvania, Texas) before moving to Phoenix, Arizona, where he still lives today. A prolific writer, Sallis has flanked his noir writing with the avant-garde novel Renderings, spy novel Death Will Have Your Eyes, many short stories and essays, four collections of poetry and a biography of Chester Himes. He has furthermore written literary and music criticism, and translated authors such as Raymond Queneau, Blaise Cendrars, Mikhail Lermontov and Boris Pasternak. Sallis plays numerous musical instruments, including the guitar, French horn, mandolin, sitar and Dobro guitar. He says: “Blues influences everything I do.” The film adaptation of his bestseller Drive is currently in production, directed by Neil Marshall and starring Hugh Jackman.
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