Pete Dexter
Autor(a) de Paris Trout
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Obras de Pete Dexter
Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not… (2007) 118 cópias
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Dexter, Pete
- Data de nascimento
- 1943-07-22
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Pontiac, Michigan, USA
- Locais de residência
- Pontiac, Michigan, USA
Puget Sound, Washington, USA
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Vermillion, South Dakota, USA - Educação
- University of South Dakota (BA|1970)
- Ocupação
- reporter (newspaper)
columnist
novelist - Organizações
- Philadelphia Daily News
Sacramento Bee
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
University of South Dakota - Premiações
- National Book Award (1988)
- Agente
- Esther Newberg (International Creative Management)
Membros
Discussions
152. Deadwood by Pete Dexter em Backlisted Book Club (Março 2022)
A bed in the middle of a glass floor! Crime novel and movie. em Name that Book (Maio 2018)
Resenhas
Deadwood de Walter Hill
Though the story playing out in the series is often a product of creator David Milch's 'imaginative reality', that in no way lessens its impact as a narrative of the Dakotas and their overly rich history of villainy, debauchery and profanity. Deadwood itself grew from a small mining camp to ten thousand inhabitants in a dizzying matter of three months in 1873. Word of a substantial ore find literally led to the phrase 'there's gold in them thar hills', creating an endless stream of immigrants to the Badlands. The territory itself was relegated to the Sioux Indians, and the U.S. Government was supposed to keep settlers out. But as everyone knows, money talks.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 14
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 4,389
- Popularidade
- #5,718
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 99
- ISBNs
- 177
- Idiomas
- 11
- Favorito
- 15
