Pete Dexter
Author of Paris Trout
About the Author
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 show more 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) show less
Works by Pete Dexter
Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not… (2007) 119 copies, 4 reviews
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Associated Works
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1943-07-22
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Pontiac, Michigan, USA
- Places of residence
- Pontiac, Michigan, USA
Puget Sound, Washington, USA
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Vermillion, South Dakota, USA - Education
- University of South Dakota (BA|1970)
- Occupations
- reporter (newspaper)
columnist
novelist - Organizations
- Philadelphia Daily News
Sacramento Bee
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
University of South Dakota - Awards and honors
- National Book Award (1988)
- Agent
- Esther Newberg (International Creative Management)
Members
Discussions
152. Deadwood by Pete Dexter in Backlisted Book Club (March 2022)
A bed in the middle of a glass floor! Crime novel and movie. in Name that Book (May 2018)
Reviews
Lists
Read These Too (1)
Southern Fiction (1)
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 14
- Also by
- 4
- Members
- 4,527
- Popularity
- #5,545
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 103
- ISBNs
- 186
- Languages
- 11
- Favorited
- 15
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