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Tim Dorsey, standing among palm fronds, wearing dark glasses and a palm-patterned Hawaiian-style shirt

Tim Dorsey

Dates

1961 - present

Alabama Connection

  • Auburn, Lee County: education
  • Montgomery, Montgomery County: adult residence

Selected Works

  • Dorsey, Tim. Florida Roadkill. New York: Morrow, 1999.
  • Dorsey, Tim. Orange Crush. New York: W. Morrow, 2001.
  • Dorsey, Tim. Cadillac Beach. New York: William Morrow, 2004.
  • Dorsey, Tim. The Big Bamboo. New York: Morrow, 2006.
  • Dorsey, Tim. Hurricane Punch. New York: William Morrow, 2007.
  • Dorsey, Tim. Nuclear Jellyfish. New York: William Morrow, 2009.

Biographical Information

Tim Dorsey was born in Indiana. When he was a year old, his family moved to Florida, where he grew up in Riviera Beach. For his last three years of high school, he attended Bishop Guertin High School, a Catholic boarding school in Nashua, N.H. He became interested in writing during this time and worked on the school's newspaper. After graduating from high school, Dorsey enrolled at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. He majored in transportation, earning his BS in 1983. He also was editor of the student newspaper, The Auburn Plainsman. From 1983 to 1987, Dorsey worked as a police and courts reporter for The Alabama Journal in Montgomery. He moved to Tampa, Fla., in 1987 to work for The Tampa Tribune, initially as a reporter, later as an editor. While he was working for the Tribune, Dorsey began writing a novel. Florida Roadkill, the first of his "Serge A. Storms" mysteries, was published in 1999. That year, Dorsey resigned from the newspaper to write full time. Since then, he has published a new book in the series every year.

Interests and Themes

Tim Dorsey writes satirical crime novels which are set in Florida.

For More Information

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There may be more information available through the databases in the Alabama Virtual Library. If you are an Alabama citizen, AVL can be used at your public library or school library media center. You can also get a username and password from your librarian to use AVL at home.

Reference Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

  • McKee, Richard. "Tim Dorsey, Satirical Crime Writer Extraordinaire." Florida Crime Writers. Ed. Steve Glassman. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. 40-49.

Reference Web Sites

Photo courtesy of Tim Dorsey.

Last updated on 2009-10-10.