He wrote his only published novel, "Drugstore Cowboy," in six weeks while serving a 20-year prison term for a pharmacy robbery in southwest Washington. Van Sant and Yost wrote the screenplay.

The author of "Drugstore Cowboy" was in familiar surroundings Thursday: criminal court. A frail-looking James Fogle, 73, walked slowly into a courtroom to make his first appearance after Redmond ...

James Fogle, whose book "'Drugstore Cowboy" told the story of drug users who robbed pharmacies to feed their addiction, was sentenced Friday for the crime that made him famous -- pharmacy robbery ...

James Fogle, a thief and addict who committed real crimes, then turned them into fiction in his novel “Drugstore Cowboy,” which became an acclaimed film, died last week in the infirmary ward ...

Lounging on scruffy leather couches in Deep Ellum’s Drugstore Cowboy, Cameron McCloud, Jay Analog, Tomahawk Jonez and Stanley Francisko are a striking bunch. The four are a stylized tangle of ...

MONROE — James Fogle, who wrote “Drugstore Cowboy,” an autobiographical crime novel that led to an acclaimed 1989 film starring Matt Dillon, has died. He was 75.

The man who wrote "Drugstore Cowboy," an autobiographical crime novel that led to an acclaimed 1989 film starring Matt Dillon, has died at age 75.