VJ Books Presents James Sallis!
James Sallis (born December, 1944 in Helena, Arkansas) is an American crime writer, poet, critic, musicologist and musician, best known for his series of novels featuring the detective character Lew Griffin and set in New Orleans, and for his 2005 novel Drive, which was adapted into a 2011 film of the same name.
Sallis began writing science fiction for magazines in the late 1960s.
He has worked as a creative writing teacher, respiratory therapist, musician, music teacher, screenwriter, periodical editor, book reviewer, and translator, winning acclaim for his 1993 version of Raymond Queneau's Saint Glinglin. In 2012 he played a small part as a detective in the film The Detective's Lover directed by Travis Mills.
Later short work (uncollected until Time's Hammers) appeared in the USA through the 1970s and 1980s.
He is the brother of philosopher John Sallis.
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James Sallis Select Bibliography
What You Have Left: The Turner Trilogy
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Cypress Grove - 2003
- Cripple Creek - 2006
- Salt River - 2007
The Lew Griffin Series
- The Long-Legged Fly - 1992
- Moth - 1993
- Black Hornet - 1994
- Eye of the Cricket - 1997
- Bluebottle - 1999
- The Long-Legged Fly/Moth Omnibus Edition - 2000
- Ghost of a Flea - 2001
John Turner Series
- Cypress Grove - 2003
- Cripple Creek - 2006
- Salt River - 2007
Driver Series
- Drive - 2005
- Driven - 2012
Other Novels
- Renderings - 1995
- Death Will Have Your Eyes - 1997
- The Killer is Dying - 2011
- Others of My Kind - 2013
- Willnot - 2016
- Sarah jane - October 2019
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