Jess Walter is the author of eight novels, including the bestsellers THE COLD MILLIONS and BEAUTIFUL RUINS, the National Book Award Finalist THE ZERO, and CITIZEN VINCE, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction, collected in THE ANGEL OF ROME and WE LIVE IN WATER, has won the O. Henry Prize and the Pushcart Prize, and appeared three times in Best American Short Stories. 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