![]() ![]() ![]() Army from 1958 to 1961 in the Philippines. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology on a Navy ROTC scholarship, but left to serve in the U.S. Thompson.His book The Last Good Kiss has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years."Ĭrumley, who was born in Three Rivers, Texas, grew up in south Texas, where his father was an oil-field supervisor and his mother was a waitress.Ĭrumley was a grade-A student and a football player, an offensive lineman, in high school. He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel"and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. James Arthur Crumley was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. ![]()
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