Pete Dexter
Auteur van Paris Trout
Over de Auteur
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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Werken van Pete Dexter
Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not… (2007) 117 exemplaren
Il gioielliere (in Gli occhi della paura) 1 exemplaar
Dexter Pete 1 exemplaar
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Dexter, Pete
- Geboortedatum
- 1943-07-22
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Pontiac, Michigan, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Pontiac, Michigan, USA
Puget Sound, Washington, USA
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Vermillion, South Dakota, USA - Opleiding
- University of South Dakota (BA|1970)
- Beroepen
- reporter (newspaper)
columnist
novelist - Organisaties
- Philadelphia Daily News
Sacramento Bee
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
University of South Dakota - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- National Book Award (1988)
- Agent
- Esther Newberg (International Creative Management)
Leden
Discussies
152. Deadwood by Pete Dexter in Backlisted Book Club (maart 2022)
A bed in the middle of a glass floor! Crime novel and movie. in Name that Book (mei 2018)
Besprekingen
The Paperboy door Pete Dexter
Verhaal over het schrijven van een investigative reporting stuk in de jaren 50, opgetekend door de broer van een van de reporters. Centraal staat het onderzoek naar de schuld van een veroordeelde voor de moord op een lokale sheriff. Mooie karakterschetsen gecombineerd met een coming-of-age van de protagonist
½Lijsten
Read These Too (1)
Southern Fiction (1)
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- 4,458
- Populariteit
- #5,616
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 102
- ISBNs
- 186
- Talen
- 11
- Favoriet
- 15
