Pete Dexter was born on July 22,1943 and is an American novelist.
11 Facts About Pete Dexter
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Pete Dexter won the US National Book Award in 1988 for his novel Paris Trout.
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Pete Dexter's father died when Dexter was four and he and his mother moved to Milledgeville, Georgia, where she married a college physics professor.
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Pete Dexter earned his undergraduate degree in 1969 from the University of South Dakota, which awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters and Literature in 2010.
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Pete Dexter worked for what is The Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach, Florida, but quit in 1972 because the paper's owners forced the editorial page editor to endorse Richard Nixon over George McGovern.
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Pete Dexter was a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, from 1974 to 1986,[2] The Sacramento Bee, and syndicated to many newspapers such as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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Pete Dexter was from the neighborhood, a good athlete, a nice kid.
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Pete Dexter went to Dougherty's bar to talk to Tommy Lego, having told Lego he wouldn't be publishing a retraction.
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Later, Pete Dexter returned with a friend, heavyweight prizefighter Randall "Tex" Cobb.
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For many years, Pete Dexter lived and wrote on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound.
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Pete Dexter holds a position as Writer in Residence in the creative writing program at the University of South Dakota.