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Jess Walter

Author of Beautiful Ruins

Includes the names: Jess Walter, Dzhess Uolter

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Jess Walter was born on July 20, 1965. He graduated from Eastern Washington University. Before becoming an author, he worked as a journalist. His work has appeared in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. He has written one nonfiction book and several novels. His works include Every Knee Shall Bow, Over Tumbled Graves, The Zero, and Beautiful Ruins. His novel, Citizen Vince, won the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel. He was the co-author of Christopher Darden's 1996 bestseller In Contempt. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Beautiful Ruins… (more)
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Works by Jess Walter
Beautiful Ruins 4,100 copies, 258 reviews
The Financial Lives of the Poets 864 copies, 62 reviews
Citizen Vince 691 copies, 43 reviews
The Cold Millions 682 copies, 42 reviews
The Zero 556 copies, 20 reviews
In Contempt 377 copies, 1 review
We Live in Water: stories 375 copies, 28 reviews
Over Tumbled Graves 318 copies, 7 reviews
Land of the Blind 265 copies, 6 reviews
Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family 177 copies, 7 reviews
The Angel of Rome and Other Stories 95 copies, 7 reviews
Don't Eat Cat 46 copies, 4 reviews
The Way the World Ends 42 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2022 (Editor) 23 copies, 3 reviews
Parable (The One) 13 copies
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The Best American Short Stories 2012 (Contributor) 345 copies, 7 reviews
Citrus County (Contributor) 286 copies, 15 reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2015 (Contributor) 214 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (Contributor) 196 copies, 7 reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2017 (Contributor) 168 copies, 7 reviews
The Best of McSweeney's {complete} (Contributor) 136 copies, 1 review
Portland Noir (Contributor) 103 copies, 4 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 37 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (Contributor) 99 copies, 5 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 39 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (Contributor) 85 copies, 3 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 41 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (Contributor) 76 copies, 2 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (Contributor) 52 copies, 2 reviews
Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth (Contributor) 37 copies, 1 review
You and Me and the Devil Makes Three (Esquire's Fiction for Men, #1) (Contributor) 6 copies
Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction 39 (Author) 5 copies
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Spokane, Washington, USA
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Spokane, Washington, USA
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Eastern Washington University
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Edgar Allan Poe Award Best Novel, 2005: Citizen Vince
National Book Award Best Novel Finalist, 2006: The Zero
Washington State Book Award in Fiction Finalist, 2006: The Zero
Washington State Book Award in Fiction Finalist, 2007: Citizen Vince
Washington State Book Award in Fiction Finalist, 2011: The Financial Lives of the Poets
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Home page: http://www.jesswalter.com/index.htm
From author's site: http://www.jesswalter.com/bio.htm : Jess Walter is the author of THE ZERO, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and CITIZEN VINCE, winner of the 2005 Edgar Award for best novel, as well as two other novels and a nonfiction book. He's won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and has been a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Prize, in both fiction and nonfiction, the ITW Thriller of the Year and he was part of a team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in spot news journalism. His books have been New York Times, Washington Post and NPR best books of the year and have been published in twenty countries.
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