Jess Walter

Jess Walter is a New York Times bestselling American author who has written around 8 books in his career. He is well known to write his novels based on a variety of genres, including the mystery, thriller, nonfiction, literature and fiction genres. His success as an international author can be understood from the fact that he was the finalist for the National Book Award in the year 2006 and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the year 2005. Jess was also the finalist for the PEN and the USA Literary prize for his writing works based on fiction and nonfiction. He has been able to publish his work in more than 30 foreign languages and sell them all over the world. Many of the short fiction stories written by Jess have featured in the Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, and many more. The essays, journalism, and criticism written by author Jess Walter have been widely published in The Washington Post, Playboy, the Los Angeles Times, Details, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, etc. Apart from writing fiction and nonfiction books, he also writes screenplays. In the year 1996, he co-wrote the bestseller play, In Contempt along with author Christopher Darden. Jess was born on June 20, 1965 in Spokane, Washington, United States. He started his writing career in the year 2001 and went on to publish around 8 novels till now.