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Dexter was born in Pontiac, Michigan. 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.
Dec 1, 2009 · What sparked it was an incident in South Dakota around the turn of the last century, where a circus came through and an elephant just went absolutely nuts and not only tore the circus up but, you...
Apr 7, 2010 · Alex: So, did you want to be a writer when you were growing up? Pete: No, never. I took two writing classes at the University of South Dakota, but it was just because I found out that I didn’t want to be a mathematician.
Growing up, Pete Dexter never once thought he would grow up to become an author. Things changed when he went to the University of South Dakota and it was there that he took two writing classes. He only took the classes after realizing that mathematics was not for him.
Feb 10, 2007 · Novelist Pete Dexter was once a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News. The title of his new book says it all: Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden...
During a call to his home to discuss his masterful new novel, Train, he doesn’t really say what transformed him from a wild child into a respected newspaper reporter in Florida and, later, in Philadelphia. But he’s quite specific about how he became a novelist.
Mar 4, 2007 · In the early 1980s, when I was a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer trying to act fearless covering the mean streets of a city with more mean ones than perhaps any in America, I had a brief...
