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.
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Biography
Dexter was born in Pontiac, Michigan. He was a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacramento Bee. 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. 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. Dexter lives and writes on an island in the Puget Sound area of the state of Washington. 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)
Screenplays
- Paris Trout
- Rush (1991)
- Michael (1996)
- Mulholland Falls (1996)
