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  1. Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Paris Trout and five other novels: God's Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, The Paperboy, and Train. He has been a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacramento Bee, and has contributed to many magazines, including Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy.

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  2. Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award–winning novel Paris Trout as well as Spooner, Paper Trails, God’s Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, and Train. He has been a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacramento Bee, and has contributed to many magazines, including Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy. His ...

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  4. Dec 5, 1988 · Paris Trout, in Mr. Dexter's book, is the name of a white store owner and part-time moneylender who tracks down a young black man who has failed to pay a bet he lost. Instead, Trout's fusillade of ...

  5. Aug 28, 2023 · His father died when Dexter was four and he and his mother moved to Milledgeville, Georgia, where she married a college physics professor. [5] He earned his undergraduate degree in 1969 from the University of South Dakota, which awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters and Literature in 2010.

  6. Jan 1, 1988 · Pete Dexter. In this novel of social drama, a casual murder in the small Georgia town of Cotton Point just after World War II and the resulting court case cleave open the ugly divisions of race and class. The man accused of shooting a black girl, a storekeeper named Paris Trout, has no great feeling of guilt, nor fear that the system will fail ...

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  7. Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award winner Paris Troutand of God's Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, and The Paperboy. He was born in Michigan and raised in Georgia, Illinois, and eastern South Dakota. He lives on Puget Sound, Washington.

  8. Oct 2, 2009 · By Pete Dexter. Hardcover, 480 pages. Grand Central Publishing. List price: $26.99. Read An Excerpt. Still, Dexter insists that the book is not a thinly disguised biography: "It's in no way a ...

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