![]() His last novel, Threat, was published in 1981. ![]() Jessup published eleven novels - primarily westerns and spy thrillers - as Richard Telfair. He sold the movie rights to the 1971 novel Foxway but it was never filmed. Three other novels were also adapted to film - The Deadly Duo, Chuka, and The Cincinnati Kid. His first novel, The Cunning and the Haunted, was published in 1954 and filmed as The Young Don't Cry in 1957. Jessup's obituary claims he wrote over sixty novels (only confirmed a bibliography of thirty-four). Scream Bloody Murder by Telfair, Richard (pseudonym Richard Jessup) and a great selection of related books. He was at the typewriter ten hours a day. He left the Merchant Marine in 1948 to become a fulltime author. ![]() Jessup was married to Vera in 1944 and had a daughter named Marina. 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. He lived in and out of orphanages until age sixteen - when he ran away to join the United States Merchant Marine. Richard Jessup ( - ) was born in Savannah, Georgia and died in Nokomis, Florida. ![]()
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