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Jess Walter


Born
in Spokane, Washington, The United States
July 20, 1965

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction


Jess Walter is the author of five novels and one nonfiction book. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and his essays, short fiction, criticism and journalism have been widely published, in Details, Playboy, Newsweek, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe among many others.

Walter also writes screenplays and was the co-author of Christopher Darden’s 1996 bestseller In Contempt. He lives with his wife Anne and children, Brooklyn, Ava and Alec in his childhood home of Spokane, Washington.

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Average rating: 3.72 · 244,396 ratings · 25,762 reviews · 52 distinct works • Similar authors
Beautiful Ruins
3.68 avg rating — 181,519 ratings — published 2012 — 89 editions
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The Cold Millions
3.95 avg rating — 19,551 ratings — published 2020 — 35 editions
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The Financial Lives of the ...
3.71 avg rating — 10,925 ratings — published 2009 — 41 editions
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We Live in Water
3.91 avg rating — 6,470 ratings — published 2013 — 18 editions
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Citizen Vince
3.88 avg rating — 4,689 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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The Angel of Rome and Other...
4.02 avg rating — 3,982 ratings — published 2022 — 17 editions
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The Way the World Ends (War...
3.55 avg rating — 3,683 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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The Zero
3.51 avg rating — 2,851 ratings — published 2006 — 32 editions
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Parable (The One, #2)
4.28 avg rating — 1,996 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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Ruby Ridge: The Truth and T...
4.16 avg rating — 1,512 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions
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“Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
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“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”
“That’s only three.”
Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
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“His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
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