Jeff Lindsay is the pen name of
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and crime novelist
Jeffry P. Freundlich (born July 14, 1952), best known for his novels about sociopathic vigilante
Dexter MorganDexter Morgan is a fictional character in a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay, including Darkly Dreaming Dexter , Dearly Devoted Dexter , Dexter in the Dark and Dexter by Design ....
. Many of his earlier published works include his wife
Hilary HemingwayHilary Hemingway is an American author and wife to author Jeff Lindsay and daughter of Leicester Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's brother. In many of her earlier published works she is included as Lindsey's co-author. She is also an award-winning screenwriter and has worked for studios such as Warner...
as a co-author. His wife is the niece of
Ernest HemingwayErnest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature...
and an author in her own right. Lindsay was born in Miami and graduated from
Ransom EvergladesRansom Everglades is an independent, co-educational day school serving grades six to twelve in Coconut Grove in Miami, Florida. It formed with the merger in 1974 of the Everglades School for Girls and the Ransom School for Boys...
high school in 1970, and from
Middlebury CollegeMiddlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, United States. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Middlebury was the first American institution of higher education to grant a bachelor's degree to an...
, Vermont, in 1975.
The first book in the Dexter series,
Darkly Dreaming DexterDarkly Dreaming Dexter is a 2004 novel by Jeff Lindsay. It has formed the basis of the Showtime television series Dexter. It won the 2005 Dilys Award.-Plot summary:...
(which Lindsay wanted to name "Pinocchio Bleeds" after his middle daughter suggested it but his publisher disagreed), was included on the original nomination list for the
Mystery Writers of AmericaMystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday....
's Edgar Awards in the Best First Novel category.
Jeff Lindsay is the pen name of
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
playwrightA playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works are usually written to be performed in front of a live audience by actors...
and crime novelist
Jeffry P. Freundlich (born July 14, 1952), best known for his novels about sociopathic vigilante
Dexter MorganDexter Morgan is a fictional character in a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay, including Darkly Dreaming Dexter , Dearly Devoted Dexter , Dexter in the Dark and Dexter by Design ....
. Many of his earlier published works include his wife
Hilary HemingwayHilary Hemingway is an American author and wife to author Jeff Lindsay and daughter of Leicester Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's brother. In many of her earlier published works she is included as Lindsey's co-author. She is also an award-winning screenwriter and has worked for studios such as Warner...
as a co-author. His wife is the niece of
Ernest HemingwayErnest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature...
and an author in her own right. Lindsay was born in Miami and graduated from
Ransom EvergladesRansom Everglades is an independent, co-educational day school serving grades six to twelve in Coconut Grove in Miami, Florida. It formed with the merger in 1974 of the Everglades School for Girls and the Ransom School for Boys...
high school in 1970, and from
Middlebury CollegeMiddlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, United States. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Middlebury was the first American institution of higher education to grant a bachelor's degree to an...
, Vermont, in 1975.
The first book in the Dexter series,
Darkly Dreaming DexterDarkly Dreaming Dexter is a 2004 novel by Jeff Lindsay. It has formed the basis of the Showtime television series Dexter. It won the 2005 Dilys Award.-Plot summary:...
(which Lindsay wanted to name "Pinocchio Bleeds" after his middle daughter suggested it but his publisher disagreed), was included on the original nomination list for the
Mystery Writers of AmericaMystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday....
's Edgar Awards in the Best First Novel category. However, it was dropped from the list after the group learned that Lindsay had put out several books in the 1990s under another pen name, Jeffrey P. Lindsay.
DexterDexter is an American television drama series that airs on the premium channel Showtime. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan , a covert serial killer governed by a strict moral code who works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a blood spatter analyst.The show is based on...
aired as a
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TV series on
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with the first season loosely based on
Darkly Dreaming Dexter. The second and third seasons, aired in 2007 and 2008, respectively, have original storylines that do not follow the plots of Lindsay's books. On October 21,
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, Showtime renewed the series for a fourth and fifth season, each consisting of 12 episodes. Production is slated to begin in early 2009, with season four airing September in 2009. Lindsay had a cameo role in the tenth episode of the third season of
Dexter.
Fiction
- Tropical Depression: A Novel of Suspense (1994)
- Dream Land: A Novel of the UFO Coverup (1995)
- Time Blender (1997)
- Dreamchild (1998)
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Darkly Dreaming Dexter is a 2004 novel by Jeff Lindsay. It has formed the basis of the Showtime television series Dexter. It won the 2005 Dilys Award.-Plot summary:...
(2004)
- Dearly Devoted Dexter
Dearly Devoted Dexter is a crime/horror novel by Jeff Lindsay, the second in his series about sociopathic vigilante Dexter Morgan, which has been adapted into the eponymous television series.-Plot introduction:...
(2005)
- Dexter in the Dark
Dexter in the Dark is a 2007 novel written by Jeff Lindsay. This is the third book in the Dexter series, preceded by the 2004 novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter - which formed the basis of the Showtime television series Dexter - and Dearly Devoted Dexter, its 2005 sequel.Dexter in the Dark was released...
(2007)
- Dexter by Design
Dexter by Design is a psychological thriller novel written by Jeff Lindsay.This is the fourth book in the Dexter series, preceded by the 2004 novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter , Dearly Devoted Dexter, its 2005 sequel, and Dexter in the Dark, the third installment, released in 2007.The book was...
(2009)
- Dexter is Delicious
Dexter is Delicious will be the ninth novel written by Jeff Lindsay, and the fifth book in the 'Dexter Morgan' book series.The book is expected to contain elements of cannibalism...
(2011)
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