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James Carlos Blake May 26, January 11, is an American writer of novels, novellas, short stories, and essays. His work has received extensive critical favor and several notable awards. He was born in Tampico, Mexico, a third-generation Mexican descended from American, English, Irish, and Spanish ancestors—including a British pirate who was executed in Veracruz, Mexico —and is a naturalized American citizen.

His mother, Estrella Maria Lozano Cano, was the daughter of a horse rancher and grew up on the family's ranch near Matamoros. Blake received his elementary education at St. After service in the U. He has worked as a snake-catcher, Volkswagen mechanic, swimming pool maintenance man, and county jail properties officer, but his primary occupation has been as a college instructor.

In , he left teaching to write full-time. Although Blake wrote sporadically from his teens until his thirties, it was not until the early s, while again living in Miami, that he began to write with purpose, and over the next few years he published a number of short stories in a variety of literary journals. In he published his first novel, The Pistoleer , an account of the life and times of the infamous Texas outlaw, John Wesley Hardin.

The Pistoleer introduced several motifs that would recur in much of Blake's subsequent work—violence as art; honor and morality as existential codes; character as fate a Heraclitean notion that Blake himself has cited as a pervasive theme in his fiction. In the ten years following the publication of The Pistoleer , Blake published eight more novels and a collection of short works, plus more short stories and two memoir essays.

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Dealing with the misadventures of a pair of American brothers during the time of the U. All of his previous novels are set between the midth-century and the late s, and several of them feature historical figures as protagonists. Even in those of his novels whose protagonists are created of whole cloth In the Rogue Blood , A World of Thieves , Under the Skin , Country of the Bad Wolfes , real-life people play significant or cameo roles.

Several of Blake's works have been published in foreign editions, and some are under film option, including The Killings of Stanley Ketchel , which has been optioned by Terence Winter , writer and executive producer of The Sopranos and creator of Boardwalk Empire.