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Name
  
James Fogle

Role
  
Author


Movies
  
Drugstore Cowboy

Books
  
Drugstore Cowboy


Died
  
August 23, 2012, Monroe, Washington, United States

Similar People
  
Daniel Yost, Gus Van Sant, Max Perlich, Kelly Lynch, William S Burroughs

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James Fogle (September 29, 1936 – August 23, 2012) was the American author of the autobiographical novel Drugstore Cowboy which became the basis for the film of the same name. He was born in Elcho, Wisconsin.

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Fogle was in prison at the time of the film's release in 1989. A career criminal with a sixth-grade education, Fogle had been in trouble with the law many times starting in his teens and throughout the rest of his life. On May 27, 2010, Fogle was arrested, along with another man, robbing a drugstore in Redmond, Washington. He was held on $500,000 bail as he awaited trial.

Fogle was again arrested for robbing a Seattle pharmacy in 2011. On Friday, March 4, 2011, he was sentenced to 15 years and nine months in prison. On August 23, 2012, Fogle died of mesothelioma at the age of 75 in the state Monroe Correctional Complex in Monroe, Washington prison. Though Fogle wrote many short stories and novels, the only one that has been published is Drugstore Cowboy with the rest in the possession of Fogle's friend the screenwriter Daniel Yost.

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James Fogle Wikipedia


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