Pete Dexter

Pete Dexter

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".

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 now The Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach, Fl., but quit in 1972 because the paper's owners forced the editorial page editor to endorse Richard Nixon over George McGovern.Ref|Reference 4 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.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 2007

Dexter lives and writes on an island in the Puget Sound area of the state of Washington.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

*
* [http://www.powells.com/authors/dexter.html Interview with Dexter] at Powells.com


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