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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2004
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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About the Author

Raised in New Orleans, Washington D.C., Germany, Missouri, Maryland and elsewhere, Leonce Gaiter is the quintessential army brat — rootless, restive, and disagreeable. He began writing in grade school and continued the habit through his graduation from Harvard. He moved to Los Angeles and put his disagree ability to work in the creative and business ends of the film and music industries. His thriller "Bourbon Street" was published by Carroll & Graf in Dec 2004. He currently lives in Northern California.

Book List in Order: 5 titles



  • In 1958, gambler Deke Watley decides to leave the comfort and golden dust of Texas for the toxic chiaroscuro of Mardi Gras New Orleans: he smells the chance of a lifetime. It gets even better when this opportunity to win big collides with Hannah, a w...



  • In the waning days of Indian Territory, the multi-racial, teenaged Rufus Buck Gang embarked on a vicious, childish, and deadly 13-day rampage that shocked even this lawless place. Their goal was to take back Indian lands. Based on the true story, thi...



  • Age-old American resentments besiege a group of Ivy Leaguers in Leonce Gaiter's electrifying new thriller. The divisive social realities of the 1980s surface as Lennie Ashland and his two best friends take a post-grad road trip to see the...



  • A priest learns that to serve both his God and mankind, he must betray his faith. In 1995, the gruesome death of Father Alex Shipman, a young Catholic priest who was also the scion of a wealthy, internationally (in)famous political family, leads an i...



  • A modern, jazzy take on the bildungsroman that uses everything from personal memoir, a fugue-like structure, poetry, images, lyrics, and diaries to paint a vivid, eloquent and human portrait of gay, black, Jessie Vincent Grandier and the striving Afr...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Leonce Gaiter has published 5 books.

The next book by Leonce Gaiter, A Memory of Fictions, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Leonce Gaiter, Bourbon Street, was published in December 2004.

No. Leonce Gaiter does not write books in series.