Timothy Alan Dorsey (January 25, 1961 – November 26, 2023) was an American novelist.
Biography
Tim 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.
[Shaw, A. (Spring 2012). Gunfights and Florida History: An Interview with Tim Dorsey. Saw Palm, 6, 25-30. Retrieved from http://www.sawpalm.org/uploads/6/6/2/8/6628902/saw_palm_-_volume_6_-_2012.pdf on 2 February 2022.]
Dorsey attended Auburn University, where he became the editor of The Auburn Plainsman, the student newspaper; he wrote about racism while at Auburn.
Dorsey lived in Tampa with his wife and two daughters and was a Tampa Bay Rays fan. He also still considered himself a Boston Red Sox fan, cultivated while attending high school in New Hampshire as a teen.[interview "In the footsteps of subversives" by Anna Mundow, Boston Globe February 25, 2007.]
Dorsey died in Islamorada, Florida, on November 26, 2023, at the age of 62.
Serge Storms
Most of Dorsey's novels feature Serge A. Storms as the primary character. The character has several coexisting
that render him obsessive, psychopathic,
schizophrenia, and frequently
homicide, 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.
Novels by Tim Dorsey
Short stories and Essay collections by Tim Dorsey
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Florida Roadkill: A Survival Guide (2010)
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Squall Lines: Selected articles & essays (2012)
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Tropical Warning: An Original Serge Storms Story and Other Debris (2013)
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