Pete Dexter
Författare till Paris Trout : [roman]
Om författaren
Novelist, journalist, and poet Pete Dexter was born in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1943. As a student at the University of South Dakota, where he attended on and off for ten years, he wrote poetry and won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. After graduating in 1970, he found work as a visa mer newspaper reporter. While working as a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, Dexter was nearly beaten to death by readers who disapproved of a piece he wrote about a drug-related murder. That experience helped propel him into fiction writing, and in 1984, he published God's Pocket. Dexter won a National Book Award in 1988 for his novel Paris Trout, a book that exemplifies his characteristic blending of humor and violence. As a journalist, his work has also appeared in such periodicals as Esquire and Playboy. Paper Trails, published in 2007, is a compilation of columns he wrote for the Philadelphia Daily News and The Sacramento Bee from the 1970s to the 1990s. He also wrote the novel Spooner in 2009. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Verk av Pete Dexter
Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not… (2007) 118 exemplar
Il gioielliere (in Gli occhi della paura) 1 exemplar
Dexter Pete 1 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Dexter, Pete
- Födelsedag
- 1943-07-22
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Pontiac, Michigan, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Pontiac, Michigan, USA
Puget Sound, Washington, USA
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Vermillion, South Dakota, USA - Utbildning
- University of South Dakota (BA|1970)
- Yrken
- reporter (newspaper)
columnist
novelist - Organisationer
- Philadelphia Daily News
Sacramento Bee
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
University of South Dakota - Priser och utmärkelser
- National Book Award (1988)
- Agent
- Esther Newberg (International Creative Management)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
152. Deadwood by Pete Dexter i Backlisted Book Club (mars 2022)
A bed in the middle of a glass floor! Crime novel and movie. i Name that Book (maj 2018)
Recensioner
Listor
Read These Too (1)
Southern Fiction (1)
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- 4,375
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- #5,733
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