William warren author biography

William Warren, a friend to both Jim Thompson and the most famous expat murdered in Bangkok in the 1960s, produced more than 50 books and hundreds of articles.
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William Warren has lived in Thailand since 1960 and has designed gardens in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket.

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The Bangkok type

There was something distinctly cinematic about my visits to William Warren's residence over the years. He always waited in near darkness in the screened porch off his living room. As I entered his Sukhumvit home, which was surrounded by lush gardens and teeming with antiques, a gravelly but distinctly welcoming "hello" would put me at ease. Only then would I see him in the dim light, holding a cigarette or tumbler (a stiff gin and tonic or whiskey soda), sitting completely composed.

Our conversations also seemed to follow a pattern. Each chat would start with pleasantries before meandering through a list of common expatriate topics -- Thailand, Thais, living in Thailand -- before some detours into the quite personal, with an occasional digression into scathing gossip, which we both relished. One could listen to Warren speak for hours: the southern drawl still intact after decades in Bangkok, his recall of favourite anecdotes ever at the ready, his insider stories about Thai society perhaps unsurpassed among foreigners (though perhaps to be taken with a pinch of

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Eulogy for William Warren, the Dean of All Expat Authors in Thailand

Over five decades in the kingdom, William Warren, a friend to both Jim Thompson and the most famous expat murdered in Bangkok in the 1960s, produced more than 50 books and hundreds of articles, writes Jim Algie, before his death in 2017.

When I first arrived in Thailand in the early 1990s, one writer’s name cropped up again and again in magazines and newspapers and on bookshelves: William Warren.

He wrote features about Thai culture and cuisine, guides to the islands, history pieces, profiles of high-so Thais and highly regarded expats.

Cover of the most popular book by William Warren

His most famous book is a chatty but not very scholarly biography about his former drinking buddy, Jim Thompson, the silk trader and ex-spy who disappeared in Malaysia in 1967 and was never seen again. Warren discusses all those conspiracy theories in Jim Thompson: The Unsolved Mystery. Though my favorite from his backlist is The Elephant in Thai Life and Legend, a coffee-table book from 2000 embellished with superb pho

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Bill Warren (film historian and critic)

American film historian and critic

For other people named Bill Warren, see William Warren (disambiguation).

William Bond Warren (April 26, 1943 – October 7, 2016) was an American film historian, critic, and one of the leading authorities on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.

Early life and education

Warren was born in North Bend, Oregon and grew up in Gardiner on the Umpqua River. He became interested in science fiction films during the genre's first boom period in the 1950s after seeing The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). Discovering Famous Monsters of Filmland with its first issues, he received regular acknowledgments and thanks as a contributor throughout the early years of the magazine, along with Don Glut, Eric Hoffman, and Mark Thomas McGee. After attending Reedsport High School, he graduated from the University of Oregon, in Eugene, Oregon.^{[citation needed]}

Move to Los Angeles

Warren and his wife Beverly moved to Los Angeles in 1966. As an assistant to science fiction agent, edito