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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 eight 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: 3.74 · 270,316 ratings · 28,889 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors
Beautiful Ruins
3.68 avg rating — 185,001 ratings — published 2012 — 91 editions
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The Cold Millions
3.95 avg rating — 20,522 ratings — published 2020 — 35 editions
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So Far Gone
3.96 avg rating — 18,887 ratings — published 2025 — 12 editions
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The Financial Lives of the ...
3.71 avg rating — 11,309 ratings — published 2009 — 43 editions
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We Live in Water
3.91 avg rating — 6,703 ratings — published 2013 — 19 editions
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Citizen Vince
3.89 avg rating — 4,941 ratings — published 2005 — 44 editions
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The Angel of Rome and Other...
4.02 avg rating — 4,330 ratings — published 2022 — 18 editions
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The Way the World Ends (War...
3.55 avg rating — 3,813 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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The Zero
3.51 avg rating — 2,943 ratings — published 2006
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Parable (The One, #2)
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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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