Tim Dorsey | |
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 Dorsey at a book signing at Haslam's Book Store in 2011 | |
| Born | January 25, 1961 Carmel, Indiana, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Bishop Guertin High School Auburn University |
| Children | 2 |
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Tim Dorsey (born January 25, 1961) is an American novelist. He is known for a series starring Serge A. Storms, a mentally disturbed vigilante antihero who rampages across Florida enforcing his own moral code against a variety of low-life criminals.
Dorsey was born in Carmel, Indiana and was taken to Florida by his mother at the age of 1. He grew up in Riviera Beach, a small town in Palm Beach County just north of West Palm Beach. Dorsey graduated from Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua N.H, in 1979. [1]
He attended Auburn University, where he became the editor of The Auburn Plainsman , the student newspaper; he wrote about racism while at Auburn. [2] 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 political reporter, correspondent in the Tribune's Tallahassee bureau, copy desk editor, and, finally, 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 and brothers from Bishop Guertin High School he attended as a child being from New Hampshire. He is also a Tampa Bay Rays fan from living in the same city. [3]
Most of Dorsey's novels feature Serge A. Storms as the primary character. The character has several coexisting mental illnesses that render him obsessive, psychopathic, schizophrenic, 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 intelligent, and frequently devises wildly inventive ways of condemning villains (or at least who he perceives as such) to death. His co-pilot in the majority of his adventures is Coleman, whose personality is the exact opposite of Serge. Whereas Serge is a high-strung straight-edged coffee addict, Coleman is an alcoholic drug user who goes to extreme lengths to maintain his buzz.
| Order of Publication | Order in Chronology [4] | Title | Publication | ISBN |
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| 1 | 2 | Florida Roadkill | 1999 | ISBN 978-0-06-113922-2 |
| 2 | 3 | Hammerhead Ranch Motel | 2000 | ISBN 978-0-380-73234-0 |
| 3 | 5 | Orange Crush | 2001 | ISBN 978-0-06-103154-0 |
| 4 | 1 | Triggerfish Twist | 2002 | ISBN 978-0-06-103155-7 |
| 5 | 4 | The Stingray Shuffle | 2003 | ISBN 978-0-06-055693-8 |
| 6 | 6 | Cadillac Beach | 2004 | ISBN 978-0-06-055694-5 |
| 7 | 7 | Torpedo Juice | 2005 | ISBN 978-0-06-058561-7 |
| 8 | 8 | The Big Bamboo | 2006 | ISBN 978-0-06-058563-1 |
| 9 | 9 | Hurricane Punch | 2007 | ISBN 978-0-06-082967-4 |
| 10 | 10 | Atomic Lobster | 2008 | ISBN 978-0-06-082969-8 |
| 11 | 11 | Nuclear Jellyfish | 2009 | ISBN 978-0-06-143266-8 |
| 12 | 12 | Gator A-Go-Go | 2010 | ISBN 978-0-06-143271-2 |
| 13 | 13 | Electric Barracuda | 2011 | ISBN 978-0-06-187689-9 |
| 14 | 14 | When Elves Attack | 2011 | ISBN 978-0-06-209284-7 |
| 15 | 15 | Pineapple Grenade | 2012 | ISBN 978-0-06-187690-5 |
| 16 | 16 | The Riptide Ultra-Glide | 2013 | ISBN 978-0-06-209278-6 |
| 17 | 17 | Tiger Shrimp Tango | 2014 | ISBN 978-0-06-209281-6 |
| 18 | 18 | Shark Skin Suite | 2015 | ISBN 978-0-06-224001-9 |
| 19 | 19 | Coconut Cowboy | January 26, 2016 | ISBN 978-0-06-224004-0 |
| 20 | 20 | Clownfish Blues | January 24, 2017 | ISBN 978-0-06-242922-3 |
| 21 | 21 | The Pope of Palm Beach | January 30, 2018 | ISBN 978-0-06-242926-1 |
| 22 | 22 | No Sunscreen for the Dead | January 15, 2019 | ISBN 978-0062795885 |
| 23 | 23 | Naked Came the Florida Man | January 7, 2020 | ISBN 978-0062796004 |
| 24 | 24 | Tropic of Stupid | January 26, 2021 | ISBN 978-0062967503 |
| 25 | 25 | Mermaid Confidential | January 25, 2022 | ISBN 978-0062967534 |
| 26 | 26 | The Maltese Iguana | February 28, 2023 | ISBN 978-0063240629 |
Serge A. Storms is the main protagonist in most of Tim Dorsey's novels. His name is a pun on storm surge. Most often described as "intense" in personality, he is a vagrant with a voracious intellect and an encyclopedic knowledge of Florida history, but prone to periods of "focus" that lead him to commit brutal - and often elaborately planned and staged - acts of violence.
Triggerfish Twist is a 2002 crime novel by Tim Dorsey, the fourth in his series featuring Serge A. Storms.
Florida Roadkill is a black comedy crime novel by Tim Dorsey, the first in his series centered around the character Serge A. Storms. It was published in 1999 by William Morrow and Company, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Hammerhead Ranch Motel is a novel by Tim Dorsey published in 2000. It continues the story, started in Florida Roadkill, of blithe psychopath Serge A. Storms and his pursuit of five million dollars in cash hidden in the trunk of a car. The book is non-linear, with some scenes occurring at the same time chronologically but told out of order with later scenes.
Cadillac Beach is the sixth novel written by Tim Dorsey, published in 2004.
Torpedo Juice is Tim Dorsey's seventh novel, published in 2005. As with Dorsey's previous works, the main character is amateur Florida historian and serial killer Serge A. Storms.
The Big Bamboo is the eighth novel by Tim Dorsey featuring the sociopathic anti-hero Serge A. Storms. It was published in the US in March 2006 and May 2006 in the UK. The plotline follows Serge A. Storms as he follows his recent obsession of Hollywood and movies, in particular the movie The Punisher, which was shot on location in Florida. Serge travels to Hollywood to write a screenplay, something that Coleman, his constantly addled companion, is constantly interrupting with obnoxious and sometimes outrageous concerns.
The Silver Palm was a daily passenger train route operated by Amtrak between Miami and Tampa in the U.S. state of Florida. Service began in 1982 and ended in 1985.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is a daily newspaper, located in Sarasota, Florida, founded in 1925 as the Sarasota Herald.
The 1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane was a large Category 4 tropical cyclone on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale that caused widespread damage across the western Caribbean Sea and Southeastern United States in October 1944. It inflicted over US$100 million in damage and caused at least 318 deaths, the majority of fatalities occurring in Cuba. One study suggested that an equivalent storm in 2018 would rank among the costliest U.S. hurricanes. The full extent of the storm's effects remains unclear due to a dearth of conclusive reports from rural areas of Cuba. The unprecedented availability of meteorological data during the hurricane marked a turning point in the United States Weather Bureau's ability to forecast tropical cyclones.
Hurricane Punch is a novel by Tim Dorsey published in 2007. It follows overly zealous serial killer Serge A. Storms, who is tracking hurricanes all over Florida.
The 1934 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1934 college football season. The season was the high-water mark of Dennis K. Stanley's three-year tenure as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The highlights of the season included hard-fought victories over the Auburn Tigers and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, both fellow Southeastern Conference (SEC) members, and the VPI Gobblers and NC State Wolfpack, two out-of-conference Southern teams. Stanley's 1934 Florida Gators finished the year with a 6–3–1 overall record and a 2–2–1 record in the SEC, placing seventh in the thirteen-member SEC.
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The 1950 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1950 college football season. The season was Bob Woodruff's first of ten as the new head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Woodruff was a former college football player and assistant for coach Robert Neyland's Tennessee Volunteers, who made his name as an up-and-coming young head coach leading the Baylor Bears for three seasons in the late 1940s. Like Neyland, Woodruff emphasized stout defense, the kicking game and a ball control offense. In Woodruff's first season of 1950, the Gators offense, led by quarterback Haywood Sullivan and offensive coordinator Frank Broyles, posted record numbers. Sullivan was the first sophomore in SEC history to throw for more than 1,000 yards in a season. He set nine school records. The highlights of the season included two Southeastern Conference (SEC) victories over the Auburn Tigers (27–7) and the No. 13-ranked Vanderbilt Commodores (31–27)—the first season since 1940 in which the Gators won two or more SEC games. The Gators' No. 20 ranking after the Vanderbilt game marked their first-ever appearance in the top twenty of the weekly Associated Press Poll. Woodruff's 1950 Florida Gators finished 5–5 overall and 2–4 in the SEC, placing tenth among twelve conference teams.
The 1951 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1951 college football season. The season was Bob Woodruff's second as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The highlights of the season included two intersectional victories over the Wyoming Cowboys (13–0) and the Loyola Lions (40–7), and two Southeastern Conference (SEC) victories over the Vanderbilt Commodores (33–13) during Florida's homecoming and the Alabama Crimson Tide (30–21) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. For the second year in a row, Woodruff's 1951 Florida Gators finished 5–5 overall and 2–4 in the SEC, placing ninth among twelve conference teams.
The 1933 Treasure Coast hurricane was the second-most intense tropical cyclone to strike the United States during the active 1933 Atlantic hurricane season. The eleventh tropical storm, fifth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the season, it formed east-northeast of the Leeward Islands on August 31. The tropical storm moved rapidly west-northwestward, steadily intensifying to a hurricane. It acquired peak winds of 140 mph (220 km/h) and passed over portions of the Bahamas on September 3, including Eleuthera and Harbour Island, causing severe damage to crops, buildings, and infrastructure. Winds over 100 mph (160 km/h) affected many islands in its path, especially those that encountered its center, and many wharves were ruined.
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