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Ross Thomas (author) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born on February 19, 1926 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He attended the University of Oklahoma and served in the United States Army during World War II. After the war, he worked as a journalist and then as a public relations executive. Thomas began writing fiction in the 1960s and published his first novel, The Cold War Swap, in 1966. He went on to write more than 20 novels, including The Seersucker Whipsaw (1982), Out on the Rim (1987), and Chinaman's Chance (1998). He also wrote several screenplays, including The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) and The Fourth Protocol (1987). Thomas was a three-time Edgar Award winner and was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. He died on December 18, 1995 in Santa Monica, California. He was 69 years old.

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1976

The first three novels in the McCorkle-Padillo series are written in the first person, as are a number of others through Yellow Dog Contract. The fourth and final McCorkle-Padillo novel has an omniscient narrator, as do all of the other novels published after 1976. All five of the Philip St. Ives stories, however, are told in the first person.

1970

Thomas died of lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, two months before his 70th birthday.

1967

Thomas's debut novel, The Cold War Swap, introducing McCorkle and Padillo, was written in only six weeks and won a 1967 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Briarpatch earned the 1985 Edgar for Best Novel. In 2002 he was honored with the inaugural Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award, one of only two authors to earn the award posthumously (the other was 87th Precinct author Ed McBain in 2006).

1926

Ross Thomas (February 19, 1926, in Oklahoma City – December 18, 1995, in Santa Monica, California) was an American writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his witty thrillers that expose the mechanisms of professional politics. He also wrote five novels under the pseudonym Oliver Bleeck about professional go-between Philip St. Ives.