Pete Dexter

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Pete Dexter (* 22. July 1943 in Pontiac , Michigan ) is a US -American novelist and screenwriter . He received the National Book Award in 1988 for the novel Paris Trout .

Life

Dexter grew up in Milledgeville , Georgia , where he had moved with his mother in 1947. He worked for many years as a journalist, initially for the Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach ( Florida ), which he left, however, in 1972 when the editor of the newspaper forced the editors, in the upcoming presidential election , Richard Nixon support. He then wrote for various newspapers, including in Philadelphia , Sacramento and Seattle .

When he got into a fight with boxer Randall Cobb over a newspaper article in Philadelphia in 1981 and was seriously injured - an incident that he subsequently processed in his first novel God's Pocket - he gave up journalism and became a freelance writer.

Several feature films were made based on his books, including the 1995 Western Wild Bill . He was also involved as a screenwriter on several of the film adaptations.

Dexter lives on Whidbey Island off the coast of Washington state .

Awards

Works

Novels

Scripts

Non-fiction

  • 2007 Paper Trails (Article Collection)

Film adaptations

Radio plays

Web links

supporting documents

  1. a b Author Profile at HarperCollins Publishers, accessed March 24, 2019
  2. Virtuoso spiral of violence , review by Frank Rumpel in CulturMag on April 25, 2015, accessed April 29, 2015