Monte Dutton is a writer. For most of his life, he has written about sports, and his focus was auto racing for two decades. He has written non-fiction books about high school football, NASCAR, and music.
Now he also focuses on fiction, in the form of short stories here, a collection (Longer Songs) and nine novels — The Audacity of Dope (2011), The Intangibles (2013), Crazy of Natural Causes (2015), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (2016), Cowboys Come Home (2016), and Lightning in a Bottle (2017), Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (2018, 2023) and The Latter Days (2023) — published so far. Another, to to be titled The Graduate Transfer, is in the works.
He also illustrates some stories with sketches.
And he writes songs and plays a little guitar.
From time to time, Monte also writes about books and writing here.
Contact information:
Monte Dutton, 11185 Highway 56 N., Clinton, S.C. 29325
hutdut@outlook.com
(704) 913-1143
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