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.BIBLIOGRAPHYWritten as Richard Jessup1954 - The Cunning and the Haunted (The Young Don't Cry)1955 - A Rage to Die1956 - Cry Passion1957 - Cheyenne Saturday1957 - Comanche Vengeance1958 - Long Ride West1958 - Lowdown1958 - Texas Outlaw1959 - The Deadly Duo1959 - The Man in Charge1960 - Sabadilla1960 - Night Boat to Paris1961 - Chuka1961 - Port Angelique1961 - Wolf Cop1963 - The Cincinnati Kid1967 - The Recreation Hall1969 - Sailor 1970 - A Quiet Voyage Home1971 - Foxway1974 - The Hot Blue Sea1981 - ThreatWritten as Richard Telfair1958 - Day of the Gun1958 - Wyoming Jones1959 - The Bloody Medallion1959 - The Corpse that Talked1959 - The Secret of Apache Canyon1959 - Wyoming Jones for Hire1960 - Scream Bloody Murder1960 - Sundance1961 - Good Luck, Sucker1961 -The Slavers1962 - Target for TonightFilm Adaptations1957 - The Young Don't Cry1962 - Deadly Duo1965 - The Cincinnati Kid1967 - Chuka