• Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American prose writer and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction. Thompson wrote...
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  • Westfall Thompson (1869–1941), American historian James Matthew Thompson (1878–1956), English historian and theologian Jim Thompson (writer) (1906–1977)...
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  • multiple people Jesse Thompson, (1749–1834), American soldier and politician Jim Thompson (writer) (1906–1977), American writer Joe Thompson (rugby) (1902–1983)...
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  • Matthew Thompson is an American-born Australian writer. He has written a number of books, including Mayhem: The Strange and Savage Saga of Christopher...
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    The Killer Inside Me (category Novels by Jim Thompson)
    The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications. In the introduction to the anthology Crime Novels:...
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  • R. Thompson (1936–2020), American politician, longtime governor of Illinois Jim Thompson (writer) (1906–1977), American author and screenwriter Jim Tatum...
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  • Sylvia Vaughn Thompson (born June 19, 1935) is an American food writer and chef. Thompson has written several cookbooks, including Feasts and Friends:...
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  • The Getaway (novel) (category Novels by Jim Thompson)
    The Getaway is a 1958 crime novel by Jim Thompson. Doc McCoy pulls off what he thinks is the perfect bank robbery, but there are things he has forgotten...
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  • Savage Night (category Novels by Jim Thompson)
    Savage Night is a 1953 novel by the thriller writer Jim Thompson. Charles Bigger is small of stature and in bad health, but his youthful career as a hit...
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    from his childhood such as the work of Jim Henson, Dr. Seuss, and Tim Burton. As a result of Chunky Rice, Thompson won a 2000 Harvey Award for Best New...
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    the shoot. He directed The Killer Inside Me (1976), based on the Jim Thompson (writer) novel. His story provided the basis for Escape from the Dark (1976)...
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  • The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation...
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    James Thompson (16 October 1964 – 2 August 2014) was an American-Finnish crime writer based in Helsinki. He had a master's degree in English philology...
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    Thompson was one of five finalists for the Wayman Tisdale Award, an honour given to the National Freshman of the Year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association...
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  • The Grifters (novel) (category Novels by Jim Thompson)
    The Grifters is a noir fiction novel by Jim Thompson, published in 1963. Roy Dillon is a 25-year-old con artist living in Los Angeles. At the start of...
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    Nlaka'pamux (redirect from Thompson Salish)
    [nɬeʔképmx]), also previously known as the Thompson, Thompson River Salish, Thompson Salish, Thompson River Indians or Thompson River people, and historically as...
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    writer Jim Starlin and artist Jim Aparo crafted the four-part storyline 'Ten Nights of the Beast'." Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 234: "Writer Jim Starlin...
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  • German Lutheran theologian and clergyman, bishop of Brunswick (1982–1994). Jim Peterson, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1980–1984, 1988–2007) and minister...
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    camp'". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 9 October 2020. Thompson, Simon (7 October 2020). "Jim Cummings Talks 'The Wolf Of Snow Hollow' And Making Movie...
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    www.fantagraphics.com. Retrieved 16 June 2019. Jim Broadbent at IMDb Jim Broadbent | Culture | The Guardian Jim Broadbent at the British Film Institute...
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  • Now and on Earth (category Novels by Jim Thompson)
    Now and On Earth is a 1942 novel by Jim Thompson. It was his first published novel. Set in San Diego during World War II, it is a semi-autobiographical...
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    Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he...
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  • Hot Shots! (category Films directed by Jim Abrahams)
    Hot Shots! is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Jim Abrahams, co-writer and co-director of Airplane!, and written by Abrahams and Pat Proft. It...
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    Mikey Day (category Writers Guild of America Award winners)
    Rudolph, Martin Short, and Kenan Thompson. He also served as one of the show's co-head writers. Day was hired as a writer for Saturday Night Live in 2013...
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  • John Cunliffe (author) (category English children's writers)
    television presenter who created the characters of Postman Pat and Rosie and Jim. Cunliffe was born in Colne, Lancashire on 16 June 1933, the only child of...
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  • The Basketball Diaries (film) (category Biographical films about writers)
    same name written by Jim Carroll. It tells the story of Carroll's teenage years as a promising high school basketball player and writer who develops an addiction...
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  • list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M...
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  • Secondary Modern School, where he had an inspirational English teacher named Jim Trowers, who sparked an interest in reading the novels of Charles Dickens...
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    Alex Niño Don Rico Don Thompson Maggie Thompson Alfredo Alcala Carl Barks C. C. Beck Howard Chaykin Lester Dent (prose writer) Jackie Estrada Hal Foster...
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  • and Spur, Jack Thompson as Clancy, Tom Burlinson as Jim Craig, Sigrid Thornton as Harrison's daughter Jessica, Terence Donovan as Jim's father Henry Craig...
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