Pete Dexter

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Pete Dexter (born 1943) is an American novelist. He was the recipient of the 1988 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Paris Trout.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 Novels 2.2 Screenplays 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Dexter was born in Pontiac, Michigan. He was a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News¹, the Sacramento Bee² and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer³. He began writing fiction after a life-changing 1981 incident in which thirty drunken Philadelphians, armed with baseball bats and upset by a recent column, beat the writer severely.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

Dexter lives and writes on an island in the Puget Sound area of the state of Washington.^{[citation needed]}

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.

[edit] Works

[edit] 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)

[edit] Screenplays

• Paris Trout
• Rush (1991)
• Michael (1996)
• Mulholland Falls (1996)

[edit] References

• ¹ NPR Weekend Edition: "Pete Dexter, Writing 'True Stories'", Feb. 10, 2007 [[1]]
• ² Harper Collins [[2]]
• ³ Seattle Post-Intelligencer, seattlepi.com,P-I Writers in Residence for 2007 [[3]]

[edit] External links

• Pete Dexter at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Dexter at Powells.com