James Sallis

James Sallis
Born	December 21, 1944 (1944-12-21) (age 67) Helena, Arkansas
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Period	1970 to present
Genres	Crime Fiction
www.jamessallis.com

James Sallis (born 21 December 1944 in Helena, Arkansas) is an American crime writer, poet and musician, 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.

He is the brother of philosopher John Sallis. His latest book is the 2011 novel, The Killer is Dying.

Contents 1 Novels 1.1 The Lew Griffin Books 1.2 Other Novels 2 Short Stories & Poetry Collections 3 Story Anthologies as Editor 4 Selected periodicals written in 5 Criticism, Essays, & Biographies 6 Musicology 7 Translation Work 8 Adaptations 8.1 Radio 8.2 Film 9 References

Novels

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).
• Driven (Upcoming, 2012).

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, Prairie Schooner, Transatlantic Review, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Southwest Review, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, South Dakota Review, The Edge, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Pacific Review, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, New Worlds, 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, Blaise Cendrars, Yves Bonnefoy, Andrei Voznesensky, Pablo Neruda, Francis Ponge, Jacques Dupin and Marcelin Pleynet. He has also translated work by Russian authors Mikhail Lermontov, Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Pushkin, as well as Polish writer Marek Hlasko.

Adaptations

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.

Film

In 2011, Sallis' novel Drive was adapted by director Nicolas Winding Refn into a film of the same name with Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan.

References

• Select James Sallis Bibliography
• James Sallis at IMDb
• The James Sallis Webpages

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Name	Sallis, James
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Date of birth	21 December 1944
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