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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1984
  • Latest Book:
    October 2009
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE   In this striking debut from the author of the National Book Award winner Paris Trout, Pete Dexter chronicles a murder and its consequences in the fictional blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood of God’s Pocket. &#x...



  • DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any ma...



  • Pete Dexter’s National Book Award"winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town.   The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World W...



  • Philadelphia. Two cousins. One embraces the cruel violence of his mob family. The other, Peter Flood, tries to escape it. Both of them are caught in a vicious cycle of betrayal and retribution in Pete Dexter's most powerful and compelling novel....



  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER     “An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished.” -- The New York Times Book Review   The sun is rising over Moat County, F...





  • Los Angeles, 1953. Lionel Walk is a young black caddy at Brookline, the oldest, most exclusive country club in the city, where he is known by the nickname "Train." A troubled, keenly intelligent kid with no particular interest in his own prodigious t...



  • Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his f...




Award-Winning Books by Pete Dexter

The Paperboy
1996 PEN Literary Award -- Fiction
Paris Trout
1988 National Book Award -- Fiction
1989 PEN Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Pete Dexter has published 8 books.

Pete Dexter does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Spooner, was published in October 2009.

The first book by Pete Dexter, God's Pocket, was published in March 1984.

No. Pete Dexter does not write books in series.