Pete Dexter

The Paperboy is a 1995 novel published by American author Pete Dexter.

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 face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval …

Paris Trout is a 1988 American novel written by Pete Dexter and was the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name.