Peter Kaldheim

About

Peter Kaldheim graduated in English and Classics from Dartmouth, before going on to work in publishing (as head copy editor at Harcourt then acquiring editor at Van Nostrand Reinhold), but an addiction to drugs caused his life to come apart, landing him in Rikers Island jail after he sold cocaine to an undercover drug squad agent. He now lives in Lindenhurst, Long Island, where he fishes for fluke on charter boats out of Montauk. Idiot Wind is his first book.

 

Autobiography for Quais du Polar

“Like Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, but in reverse,” is how Peter Kaldheim says he feels about making his literary debut at the unlikely age of 70. “I spent most of my life as a cockroach, then awoke one strange day to discover I’d turned into a published author.” Lucky me!

 

Crime favourites

book : The Mexican tree Duck, James Crumley

movie : The Wire, David Simon

author : Jo Nesbø

auteur : Long Way to the Light, Mike Scott

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