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Pete Dexter is a literary fiction author who has been described as a natural humorist, a tough guy, and a man with a kind heart. He has made a reputation for himself writing beautifully observed, blackly funny, hard-edged novels.
Oct 2, 2009 · The young boy in Pete Dexter's new novel, Spooner, bears a striking resemblance to the author himself. But Dexter insists that he hasn't written a memoir, only a novel with "a lot happier...
Feb 10, 2007 · Dexter was a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and Sacramento Bee during a time when many big cities had a signature columnist who wrote about the kind of people and...
Over the years, Pete Dexter’s hard-edged novels have been widely praised for both the riveting stories they tell and the sparkling clarity of the sentences with which they are told. His 1988 best-selling novel, Paris Trout , won the National Book Award.
Nov 4, 2014 · Pete Dexter’s National Book Award–winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town. The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II.
Jul 24, 1988 · Her love affair with Seagraves gives Dexter an opportunity to write about sex as serious, healing magic. It saves Seagraves’ sanity, caught as he is between Trout’s grotesque parody of his own ...
Jan 1, 2024 · Browse our complete guide to all 8 Pete Dexter books in order (from the series written by Pete Dexter). Plus, we’ve organized our list in order.
