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Sterling Watson



STERLING WATSON is the author of seven novels, including Deadly Sweet, Sweet Dream Baby, Fighting in the Shade, and Suitcase City. Watson’s short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner, the Georgia Review, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Southern Review. He was director of the creative writing program at Eckerd College for twenty years and now teaches in the Solstice MFA Program at Pine Manor College in Boston. Of his sixth novel, Suitcase City, Tom Franklin said, “If this taut literary crime novel doesn’t center Sterling Watson on the map, we should change maps.” Watson lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Committee is his latest novel.

Average rating: 3.55 · 853 ratings · 175 reviews · 14 distinct worksSimilar authors
Sweet Dream Baby

3.64 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
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Suitcase City

3.30 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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The Committee

3.75 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions
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Night Letter

3.52 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2023
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Fighting in the Shade

3.85 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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The Calling

3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions
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Deadly Sweet

2.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions
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Weep No More, My Brother

4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
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Blind Tongues

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions
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Night Letter: Library Edition

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“... sooner or later most people will do what's easy.”
Sterling Watson, Night Letter

“Maybe I can be what someone good believes I am. Maybe that's what faith is.”
Sterling Watson, Night Letter

“Tampa was a city with a perpetual inferiority complex. For a while, the local flacks had called it America's Next Great City. Then somebody had stumbled over the comedy of that title. Tampa had the Bucs, and that was good. Tampa had hockey, the Lightning, but hockey was a B sport in the South and always would be. Tampa had great seafood, its own branch of Cosa Nostra, too many malls, the world's best airport, and lately, Ybor City.”
Sterling Watson, Suitcase City
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