Tim Dorsey

Tim Dorsey (born 1961) is an American novelist. His writing style is frequently compared to those of Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen (who both had cameo appearances in his first book, "Florida Roadkill"). Dorsey's books are crime capers in the Florida style pioneered by John D. MacDonald.

Biography

Dorsey was born in Indiana but moved to Florida at an early age. He grew up in Riviera Beach, a small town in Palm Beach county just north of West Palm Beach.

He attended Auburn University, where he became the editor of "The Auburn Plainsman", the student newspaper. Dorsey graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor's degree in Transportation. After graduation, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama and served as a police reporter for a local newspaper. in 1987, Dorsey relocated to Tampa, Florida and became a reporter for "The Tampa Tribune". Until he resigned from the paper in 1999 to write full-time, he worked variously as a political reporter, a correspondent in the "Tribune"'s Tallahassee bureau, copydesk editor, and finally the night metro editor and news coordinator.

Currently, Dorsey lives in Tampa with his wife and two daughters. He is a Boston Red Sox fan due to his mother and the nuns from a parochial school he attended as a child being from Massachusetts. [interview "In the footsteps of subversives" by Anna Mundow, "Boston Globe" February 25, 2007.]

erge Storms

All of Dorsey's novels to date feature Serge Storms as the primary character. The character has several coexisting mental illnesses that render him obsessive, psychopathic, and frequently homicidal, but Storms serves as the anti-hero in Dorsey's works due to his strong sense of moral absolutism and justice. Serge is quite intelligent, and frequently devises wildly inventive ways of condemning villains (or at least who he perceives as such) to death. In early July 2008, a listing for a Florida Roadkill film briefly appeared on imdb.com and was quickly removed. Its cast listing included Paul Rudd as Serge and Seth Rogan as Coleman.

External links

* [http://www.timdorsey.com Tim Dorsey's website]
* [http://www.powells.com/ink/dorsey.html Powell's Interview with Tim Dorsey]
* [http://groups.myspace.com/FloridaRoadKill Tim Dorsey Fan Club]
* [http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Tim%20Dorsey&page=1 Tim Dorsey on Amazon]
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/19262/Tim_Dorsey/index.aspx Harper Collins page]

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