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1953 autobiography by Jim Thompson

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Bad Boy is a 1953 autobiography by Jim Thompson, an American crime novelist. It covers his life during his youth in Texas and Oklahoma.

Thompson's autobiography continues in the release of his book Roughneck (1954).

References

v t e Works by Jim Thompson
Novels	Now and on Earth (1942) Heed the Thunder (1946) Nothing More Than Murder (1949) The Killer Inside Me (1952) The Alcoholics (1953) Savage Night (1953) Bad Boy (1953) The Criminal (1953) The Golden Gizmo (1954) A Swell-Looking Babe (1954) A Hell of a Woman (1954) After Dark, My Sweet (1955) The Kill-Off (1957) Wild Town (1957) The Getaway (1958) The Transgressors (1961) The Grifters (1963) Pop. 1280 (1964) The Rip-Off (1989)
Screenplays	The Killing (1956) Paths of Glory (1957)
Film adaptations	The Getaway (1972) The Killer Inside Me (1976) Série noire (1979) Coup de Torchon (1981) The Kill-Off (1989) After Dark, My Sweet (1990) The Grifters (1990) The Getaway (1994) Hit Me (1996) This World, Then the Fireworks (1997) The Killer Inside Me (2010)

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