Tim Dorsey
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Tim Dorsey (born 1961) is an American novelist. His writing style is frequently compared to those of Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen (who both had cameo appearances in his first book, Florida Roadkill). Dorsey's books are crime capers in the Florida style pioneered by John D. MacDonald.
[edit] Biography
Dorsey was born in Indiana but moved to Florida at an early age. He grew up in Riviera Beach, a small town north of Miami.
He attended Auburn University, where he became the editor of The Auburn Plainsman, the student newspaper. Dorsey graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor's degree in Transportation. After graduation, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama and served as a police reporter for a local newspaper. in 1987, Dorsey relocated to Tampa, Florida and became a reporter for The Tampa Tribune. Until he resigned from the paper in 1999 to write full-time, he worked variously as a political reporter, a correspondent in the Tribune's Tallahassee bureau, copydesk editor, and finally the night metro editor and news coordinator.
Currently, Dorsey lives in Tampa with his wife and two daughters.
[edit] Serge Storms
- Main article: Serge A. Storms
All of Dorsey's novels to date feature Serge Storms as one of the primary characters (although Storms does not surface until well into Orange Crush). The character has several coexisting mental illnesses that render him obsessive, psychopathic, and frequently homicidal, but Storms serves as the anti-hero in Dorsey's works due to his strong sense of moral absolutism and justice. Serge is quite intelligent, and frequently devises wildly inventive ways of condemning villains (or at least who he perceives as such) to death.
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| Tim Dorsey |
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| Novels: Florida Roadkill (1999) | Hammerhead Ranch Motel (2000) | Orange Crush (2001) | Triggerfish Twist (2002) The Stingray Shuffle (2003) | Cadillac Beach (2004) | Torpedo Juice (2005) | The Big Bamboo (2006) |
| Characters: Serge A. Storms - Detective Mahoney - Johnny Vegas |
