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James Sallis

(b.1944)

Jim Sallis has published fourteen novels, multiple collections of short stories, essays, and poems, books of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. He has written about books for the L.A. Times, New York Times, and Washington Post, and for some years served as a books columnist for the Boston Globe. In 2007 he received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon. In addition to the feature film Drive, the six Lew Griffin books are under consideration for development as feature films and Driven is optioned to the same team as Drive. Jim teaches novel writing at Phoenix College and plays regularly with his string band, Three-Legged Dog. He stays busy.

Genres: Mystery

Series

Lew Griffin
   1. The Long-Legged Fly (1992)
   2. Moth (1993)
   3. Black Hornet (1994)
   4. Eye of the Cricket (1997)
   5. Blue Bottle (1998)
   6. Ghost of a Flea (2001)

Turner
   1. Cypress Grove (2003)
   2. Cripple Creek (2006)
   3. Salt River (2007)

Drive
1. Drive (2005)
2. Driven (2012)

Novels

   Renderings (1995)
   Death Will Have Your Eyes (1997)
   The Killer is Dying (2011)
   Others of My Kind (2013)
   Willnot (2016)
   Sarah Jane (2019)

Collections

   A Few Last Words (1970)
   Limits of the Sensible World (1994)
   Time's Hammers (2000)
   A City Equal to My Desire (2000)
   Sorrow's Kitchen (poems) (2000)
   Breaking Windows (2003) (with others)
   Potato Tree (2007)
   Black Night's Gonna Catch Me Here: New and Selected Poems (poems) (2015)
   Night's Pardons (poems) (2016)
   Dayenu and Other Stories (2021)
   What You Were Fighting For (2024)

Anthologies edited

The War Book (1969)
The Shores Beneath (1971)

Non fiction

   Difficult Lives (1993)
   Ash of Stars (1996)
   Chester Himes: A Life (2000)
   Gently Into the Land of Meateaters (2000)

Omnibus editions

The Long Legged Fly / Moth (2000)

Anthologies containing stories by James Sallis

Nova 1 (1970)
Again Dangerous Visions Book 2 (1973)
Alternities (1974)
New Worlds 7 (1974)
Whispers (1977)
100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories (1984)
Full Spectrum 2 (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)

Short stories

	Delta Flight
	Faces and Hands
	The First Few Kinds of Truth
	The Creation of Bennie Good (1970)		Nebula Awards (nominee)
	53RD American Dream (1972)
	At the Fitting Shop (1972)
	A Weather Report from the Top of the Stairs (1973) (with David Lunde)
	Insect Men of Boston (1974)
	Miranda-Escobedo (1976)
	Attitude of the Earth Toward Other Bodies (1989)
	Dear Floods of Her Hair (1999)

Awards

	Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1971) : The Creation of Bennie Good
	Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1994) : Moth
	Anthony Awards Best Novel nominee (1998) : Eye of the Cricket

James Sallis recommends

Broken Sword (2023)
(Tijuana Noir)
Mark Rogers
"MArk Rogers knows that the stylish polished picture frame in which we live is riddled with holes in which worms live."

Jackdaw (2022)
Tade Thompson
"Like Joyce's Nighttown sequence, Jackdaw dwells timelessly along some ever-undefined border between dreams, the actual, the creatively imagined, and hard-edged hallucination. It is brutal, unremitting and, very much in its own steadfast manner, brilliant."

Cruz (2022)
Nicolás Ferraro
"After seventy years of voracious and omnivorous reading, finding a new writer remains a great pleasure, especially one who honors tradition while speaking clearly, even beautifully, in a voice all his or her own. Nico Ferraro is one of those writers."

Just Thieves (2021)
Gregory Galloway
"Just Thieves happens in a wonderful space where digression and story-telling ride out together. There's room here for much of the world and for reminders that life itself is a digression. I enjoyed and admired this novel."

Like Flies from Afar (2020)
K Ferrari
"This novel should come not with blurbs but with a hazardous-material warning: There's bone and gristle here, be ready for that taste in your mouth you can't spit out. First words to last, it's strong stuff."

Double Wide (2017)
(Whip Stark, book 1)
Leo W Banks
"Double Wide is classic crime in its best new clothes, Goodis-style grand failure and Chandler’s streetwise knight welded to the same frame and left baking in the Arizona desert until only the essential remains. Great writing line to line, wonderful evocation of place, each sentence edged with grit and humor – here where death is another story’s start-up."

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