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.
[2] A career criminal with a sixth-grade education,[3] 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 with another man for robbing a drugstore in Redmond, Washington.
On Friday, March 4, 2011, he was sentenced to 15 years and nine months in prison.
[5] 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 Daniel Yost, a screenwriter and Fogle's friend.