James Sallis is an America

United States

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n crime writer, poet

Poet

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 and musician

Musician

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, best known for his series of novels featuring the 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

Drive (2011 film)

Drive is a 2011 American crime neo-noir drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling as the principal character, with Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Albert Brooks...

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He is the brother of philosopher John Sallis

John Sallis

John Sallis is an American philosopher. Since 2005, he has been the Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has previously taught at Pennsylvania State University , Vanderbilt University , Loyola University of Chicago , Duquesne University and the University of the South .He is the brother...

. His latest book is the 2011 novel, The Killer is Dying.

The Lew Griffin Books

• The Long-Legged Fly (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1996)
• Moth (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1993. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1996. New York: Walker & Co, 2003)
• Black Hornet (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1997. New York: Walker & Co, 2003)
• Eye of the Cricket (New York: Walker & Co, 1997 & 2000. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1998)
• Bluebottle (New York: Walker & Co, 1999. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1999)
• The Long-Legged Fly/Moth Omnibus Edition (Harpenden: No Exit Press, 2000).
• Ghost of a Flea (New York: Walker & Co, 2001 & 2000. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 2001)

Other Novels

• Renderings (Seattle, Washington: Black Heron Press, 1995).
• Death Will Have Your Eyes (New York: St Martins Press, 1997. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1997).
• Cypress Grove (New York: Walker & Co, 2003. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 2003).
• Drive (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2005).
• Cripple Creek (New York: Walker & Co, 2006).
• Salt River (New York: Walker & Co, 2007).
• The Killer Is Dying (New York: Walker & Co, 2011).

Short Stories & Poetry Collections

• A Few Last Words' (New York: Macmillan, 1970).
• Limits of the Sensible World (Austin, Texas: Host Publications, 1994).
• Time's Hammers: Collected Stories (Edgbaston, Birmingham: Toxic, 2000).
• Sorrow's Kitchen (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000).
• A City Equal to My Desire (Point Blank Press, 2004).

Story Anthologies as Editor

• The War Book (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969/Panther, 1971) - includes his short story "And then the dark..."
• The Shores Beneath (New York: Avon Books, 1973).

Selected periodicals written in

The Georgia Review

The Georgia Review

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, Prairie Schooner, Transatlantic Review

Transatlantic Review

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, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

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, Southwest Review

Southwest Review

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, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

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, South Dakota Review, The Edge, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine is a monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction. AHMM is named for Alfred Hitchcock, the famed director of suspense films and television.-History:...

, Pacific Review, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, New Worlds

New Worlds (magazine)

New Worlds was a British science fiction magazine which was first published professionally in 1946. For 25 years it was widely considered the leading science fiction magazine in Britain, publishing 201 issues up to 1971...

, TransVersions, Confrontation, Pequod, America Poetry Review, Poetry East, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Now, The Chariton Review, Western Humanities Review, International Poetry Review, and Negative Capability.

Criticism, Essays, & Biographies

• Difficult Lives: Jim Thompson – David Goodis – Chester Himes (New York: Gryphon Books, 1993; rev. ed., 2000).
• Ash of Stars: On the Writings of Samuel R. Delany (Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1996), edited by James Sallis.
• Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (Seattle, Washington: Black Heron Press, 2000).
• Chester Himes: A Life (Edinburgh: Payback Press, 2000. New York: Walker & Co, 2001).

Musicology

• The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music (New York: William Morrow, 1982; Lincoln, Nebraska, and London: Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press, 1994, rev. ed.).
• Jazz Guitars: An Anthology (New York: William Morrow, 1984), edited by James Sallis.
• The Guitar in Jazz (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1996), edited by James Sallis.

Translation Work

• Saint Glinglin (Dalkey Archive Press, 1993; trade paperback 2000) by Raymond Queneau.
• My Tongue in Other Cheeks (Obscure Publications, 2003) — selected translations of poems from French, Spanish and Russian.

Sallis has published translations of the poetry of, among others, Raymond Queneau

Raymond Queneau

Raymond Queneau was a French poet and novelist and the co-founder of Ouvroir de littérature potentielle .-Biography:Born in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Queneau was the only child of Auguste Queneau and Joséphine Mignot...

, Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars

Frédéric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement.-Early years:...

, Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy is a French poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of a railroad worker and a teacher....

, Andrei Voznesensky, Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

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, Francis Ponge

Francis Ponge

Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge was a French essayist and poet. In many ways, he combined the two — essay and poem — into a single art form.-Life:...

, Jacques Dupin

Jacques Dupin

Jacques Dupin is a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal L'éphemère.A resident of Paris since 1944, he is director of publication at Galerie Maeght.- Jacques Dupin's poetry in English :...

 and Marcelin Pleynet

Marcelin Pleynet

Marcelin Pleynet was born in Lyon, France in 1933. Writer, essayist, poet, he was Managing Editor of the influential magazine Tel Quel from 1962 to 1982, and co-edits the journal L'Infini with Philippe Sollers. He was Professor of Aesthetics at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in...

. He has also translated work by Russian authors Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest...

, Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian language poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russia, Pasternak's anthology My Sister Life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language...

 and Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....

, as well as Polish writer Marek Hlasko

Marek Hlasko

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Radio

Eye of the Cricket was adapted for BBC Radio 7 as part of the Readings to Die For series. It aired in 2007, 2008 and 2010. The main voice artist was Ray Shell

Ray Shell

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Film

In 2011, Sallis' novel Drive was adapted by director Nicolas Winding Refn into a film of the same name

Drive (2011 film)

Drive is a 2011 American crime neo-noir drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling as the principal character, with Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Albert Brooks...

 with Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling

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 and Carey Mulligan

Carey Mulligan

Carey Hannah Mulligan is an English actress. She made her film debut as Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice . She had roles in numerous British programmes and, in 2007, made her Broadway debut in The Seagull to critical acclaim....

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