James Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas, and spent most of his childhood in South Texas. He taught creative writing at the University of Texas in El Paso and summered in Missoula, Montana.
His detective novels featuring Milo Milodragovitch and C.W. Sughrue are regarded as masterpieces of contemporary crime fiction.
‘The Final Country’, his sixth novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger Award for Fiction in 2002. His last book ‘The Right Madness’, was published in 2005.
James Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas and spent most of his childhood in South Texas. He served three years in the US Army before teaching English as a visiting writer at the University of Texas at El Paso. His hardboiled crime novels set in America’s western badlands inspired writers from Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos and were often described as a cross between HS Thompson and Raymond Chandler. He died in 2008.
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