Richard Jessup

Richard Jessup (01/01/1925 - 10/27/1982) was born in Savannah, Georgia and died in Nokomis, Florida. He lived in and out of orphanages until age sixteen - when he ran away to join the United States Merchant Marine. In eleven years of seamanship, he claimed he read a book a day and learned to write by typing out the complete text of War and Peace and editing out the errors - he subsequently threw the edited work in the ocean. Jessup was married to Vera in 1944 and had a daughter named Marina. He left the Merchant Marine in 1948 to become a fulltime author. He was at the typewriter ten hours a day. Jessup's obituary claims he wrote over sixty novels (only confirmed a bibliography of thirty-four). His first novel, The Cunning and the Haunted, was published in 1954 and filmed as The Young Don't Cry in 1957. Three other novels were also adapted to film - The Deadly Duo, Chuka, and The Cincinnati Kid. He sold the movie rights to the 1971 novel Foxway but it was never filmed. Jessup published eleven novels - primarily westerns and spy thrillers - as Richard Telfair. His last novel, Threat, was published in 1981. BIBLIOGRAPHY Written as Richard Jessup 1954 - The Cunning and the Haunted (The Young Don't Cry) 1955 - A Rage to Die 1956 - Cry Passion 1957 - Cheyenne Saturday 1957 - Comanche Vengeance 1958 - Long Ride West 1958 - Lowdown 1958 - Texas Outlaw 1959 - The Deadly Duo 1959 - The Man in Charge 1960 - Sabadilla 1960 - Night Boat to Paris 1961 - Chuka 1961 - Port Angelique 1961 - Wolf Cop 1963 - The Cincinnati Kid 1967 - The Recreation Hall 1969 - Sailor 1970 - A Quiet Voyage Home 1971 - Foxway 1974 - The Hot Blue Sea 1981 - Threat Written as Richard Telfair 1958 - Day of the Gun 1958 - Wyoming Jones 1959 - The Bloody Medallion 1959 - The Corpse that Talked 1959 - The Secret of Apache Canyon 1959 - Wyoming Jones for Hire 1960 - Scream Bloody Murder 1960 - Sundance 1961 - Good Luck, Sucker 1961 -The Slavers 1962 - Target for Tonight Film Adaptations 1957 - The Young Don't Cry 1962 - Deadly Duo 1965 - The Cincinnati Kid 1967 - Chuka