- Pete Dexter
Pete Dexter (born 1943) is an American
novelist . He was the recipient of the 1988National Book Award for Fiction for his novel "Paris Trout".Biography
Dexter was born in Pontiac,
Michigan . He was a columnist for the "Philadelphia Daily News "Ref|Reference 1, the "Sacramento Bee "Ref|Reference 2 and the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Ref|Reference 3. Prior to that he worked for what is nowThe Palm Beach Post inWest Palm Beach , Fl., but quit in 1972 because the paper's owners forced the editorial page editor to endorseRichard Nixon overGeorge McGovern .Ref|Reference 4 He began writing fiction after a life-changing 1981 incident in which thirty drunkenPhiladelphia ns, armed with baseball bats and upset by a recent column, beat the writer severely.fact|date=November 2007 The injuries, added to those he had suffered in traffic accidents and as an amateur boxer, left Dexter partially disabled and required years of corrective surgeries.fact|date=November 2007Dexter lives and writes on an island in the
Puget Sound area of the state ofWashington .fact|date=November 2007"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.Works
Novels
* "God's Pocket" (1984)
* "Deadwood" (1986)
* "Paris Trout" (1988) (1988 National Book Award for Fiction)
* "Brotherly Love" (1991)
* "The Paperboy" (1995) (1996 Literary Award, PEN Center USA)
* "Train" (2003)
* "Paper Trails" (2007)creenplays
* "Paris Trout"
* "Rush" (1991)
* "Michael" (1996)
* "Mulholland Falls " (1996)References
* NPR Weekend Edition: "Pete Dexter, Writing 'True Stories'", Feb. 10, 2007 [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7338526]
* Harper Collins [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/13427/Pete_Dexter/index.aspx]
* Seattle Post-Intelligencer, seattlepi.com,P-I Writers in Residence for 2007 [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/writers/]
* The Palm Beach Post, Nov. 22, 2003, page 1J, "The Return of the No-Nonsense Writer"External links
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* [http://www.powells.com/authors/dexter.html Interview with Dexter] at Powells.com
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