Annal:1996 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1996. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Critical/Biographical Work
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Biography books
- Biography authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
- 1996 Edgar-Critical/Biography winner
- 1995 NBCC–Biography winner
- Score: 20.46
Jim Thompson wrote some of the darkest, boldest, and most celebrated modern crime novels, including The Grifters and The Killer Inside Me. In Savage Art, Robert Polito provides the first comprehensive biography of this brilliant American original. Combining exhaustive research with novelistic fluency, Polito reproduces the vital textures of Thompson’s world and provides the first thorough chronicle of his private and public history, tracing Thompson’s dramatization of his innermost life in the “savage art” of his surprisingly personal novels.…
