Lebensdaten: * 1948 Helena, Arkansas, USA
Lew-Griffin-Reihe (Krimi):
- Die langbeinige Fliege / Stiller Zorn (The Long-Legged Fly) – 1992
- Nachtfalter (Moth) – 1993
- Black Hornet – 1994
- Eye of the Cricket – 1997
- Bluebottle – 1999
- Ghost of a Flea – 2001
Turner-Reihe (Krimi):
- Dunkle Schuld (Cypress Grove) – 2003
- Dunkle Vergeltung (Cripple Creek) – 2006
- Dunkles Verhängnis (Salt River) – 2007
Drive-Reihe (Krimi):
- Drive (Driver) – 2005
- Driven (Driver 2) – 2012
weitere Werke:
- Renderings – 1995
- Deine Augen hat der Tod (Death Will Have Your Eyes) – 1997
- Der Killer stirbt (The Killer is Dying) – 2011
- Others of My Kind – 2013
- Willnot (Willnot) – 2016
- Sarah Jane (Sarah Jane) – 2019 (rezensiert von: Jochen König)
Kurzgeschichtensammlungen und Gedichte:
- A Few Last Words – 1970
- Limits of the Sensible World – 1993
- Fahren (Time’s Hammers – Collected Stories) – 2000
- Sorrow’s Kitchen – 2000 – Gedichte
- Breaking Windows – 2003
- A City Equal to My Desire – 2004
- Potato Tree – 2007
- Black Night’s Gonna Catch Me Here – New and Selected Poems – 2015 – Gedichte
- Night’s Pardons – 2016 – Gedichte
- Daenyu and Other Stories – 2021
Sachliteratur:
- The Guitar Players – One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music – 1982
- Difficult Lives: Jim Thompson – David Goodis – Chester Himes – 1993
- Ash of Stars – 1996
- Gently into the Land of the Meateaters – 2000
- Cheser Himes – A Life – 2001
Anthologien (als Herausgeber bzw. als Autor):
- Das Kriegsbuch – Science-Fiction-Kurzgeschichten gegen den Krieg (The War Book) – 1969
- Nova 1 – 1970
- The Shores Beneath – 1971
- Again Dangerous Visions Book 2 – 1973
- Alternities – 1974
- New Worlds 7 – 1974
- Whispers – 1977
- Jazz Guitars – An Anthology – 1984
- Full Spectrum 2 – 1973
- The Guitar in Jazz – 1996
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection – 2003