In a message dated 9/4/03 11:47:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 23:39:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Denton <
buff@pobox.com>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Ross Thomas
I've just started reading THE FOOLS IN TOWN ARE ON OUR
SIDE (1970) by Ross
Thomas. There's a big, expensive new trade paperback
edition out. Thomas
is well-regarded on the list, and I looked through the
archives and found
a number of mentions:
Mr. Moore during Washington month:
http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/archives/200112/0216.html
Some people mentioned this ATLANTIC article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96nov/hiss/hiss.htm
Lots of talk about CHINAMAN'S CHANCE when it was a book
of the month:
http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/archives/200008/
No-one ever mentioned meeting Thomas, though, and it's
always interesting
to hear what a writer was like. Did any of you know him
or meet him?
What sort of a gee was he?
Bill >>
He came to one Bouchercon that I attended but I did not meet
him. I did attend the question and answer session conducted
by our own Bill Crider. He seemed rather formal, a bit stiff
and I remember wondering if this was due to a background in
some form or fashion of our intelligence service. His fiction
and his biography certainly made me suspect that he had, at
the very least, served as a contract agent. Whether that was
actually the case I don't really know.
A friend of mine (and Bill's) Steve Stilwell did have the
wonderful experience of spending an evening or two with him
when he came through Minneapolis on book tours. Steve said he
was a great guy and not surprisingly, a great story
teller.
Richard Moore
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