Jess Walter is the author of seven novels, including the bestsellers BEAUTIFUL RUINS and THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POET, the National Book Award finalist THE ZERO, and CITIZEN VINCE, the winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction has appeared in Harper's, McSweeney's and Playboy, as well as The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He lives in his hometown of Spokane, Washington.

Books by Jess Walter

Beautiful Ruins

by Jess Walter - Fiction

In 1962, a young innkeeper in Italy spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman approaching him on a boat. He soon learns that she’s an American actress --- and she’s dying. And the story begins again today, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot, searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.

The Financial Lives of the Poets

by Jess Walter

Citizen Vince

by Jess Walter - Fiction, Suspense