Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 57 photos.
WINNER
| 1995 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Robert Polito served as president of the Poetry Foundation from 2013 to 2015. He was the founding director of the Graduate Writing Program at the New School. For his book Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, Polito was awarded the National Books Critics Circle Award in Biography.
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Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 57 photos.
Awards
WINNER
| 1995 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Author
Robert Polito served as president of the Poetry Foundation from 2013 to 2015. He was the founding director of the Graduate Writing Program at the New School. For his book Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, Polito was awarded the National Books Critics Circle Award in Biography.
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