Robert Polito

Part of Tulsa LitFest

Join us for an afternoon celebrating Oklahoma’s own Jim Thompson with acclaimed writer and biographer, Robert Polito.

Jim Thompson was one of the greatest crime novelists ever, leaving behind a legacy of hard-boiled classics like The Killer Inside Me, The Grifters and The Getaway. Robert Polito wrote the definitive biography of this brilliant American original and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography.

The event is free and open to the public. Copies of “Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson,” as well as some of Thompson’s novels will be for sale.