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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2013
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Book List in Order: 5 titles



  • A powerful, exquisitely written tale about a charismatic yet morally ambiguous salesman Jim can sell anything to anyone. Born into abject poverty, he uses street smarts, irresistible charms, and increasingly sophisticated schemes to pull himself u...





  • Inspired by a true story, artfully told by the author of Searching for Bobby Fischer: A Bahamian island becomes a battleground for a savage private war.   Charismatic expat Bobby Little built his own funky version of paradise on the remote islan...



  • An American tourist finds himself obsessed with a young Costa Rican woman in this novel by the author of Searching for Bobby Fischer and Deep Water Blues.   Narrated by a man vacationing in a remote fishing village on the spectacular Pacific coa...



  • Two Bronx boys take radically different paths in a novel about the limits of genius and the loss of home, by a “terrifically gifted” author (Anita Shreve, New York Times-bestselling author of The Stars Are Fire).   Ralph Silverman was a chil...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Fred Waitzkin has published 5 books.

The next book by Fred Waitzkin, Anything Is Good, will be published in July 2024.

The first book by Fred Waitzkin, Dream Merchant, was published in April 2013.

No. Fred Waitzkin does not write books in series.