John Dufresne

John Dufresne is an American novelist and short-story writer, long associated with Florida International University's creative writing program, known for darkly comic Southern/Florida fiction including Louisiana Power & Light and Deep in the Shade of Paradise. In this catalogue he appears only as one of thirteen contributors to Naked Came the Manatee (1996), a round-robin novel serialized in the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, with each chapter written by a different South Florida crime writer, including Edna Buchanan, Carl Hiaasen, and Dave Barry -- a novelty project reflecting the tight-knit Miami crime-writing scene of the era rather than his own literary-fiction body of work, which sits outside this catalogue's scope.