Leonce Gaiter is the author of "A Memory of Fictions (or) Just - Tiddy-Boom," the thriller, "I am the Whore and the Holy One," the historical novel, "I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang," the coming of age novel, "In the Company of Educated Men," and the noir thriller, "Bourbon Street." His non-fiction work includes, "Whites Shackled Themselves to Race, and Blacks Have Yet to Free Ourselves." Other nonfiction pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, NY Newsday, The Washington Post, Salon, and in national syndication.
Raised in New Orleans, Washington D.C., Germany, Missouri, Maryland and elsewhere, Leonce Gaiter was the quintessential rootless army brat. He began writing in grade school and continued the habit through his graduation from Harvard. After studying film and English literature, he moved to Los Angeles and worked in the creative and business ends of the film and music industries for several years. Leaving Los Angeles, he subsequently stumbled into B2B marketing for major high tech firms.
What I like to write:
In fiction, I like to write about the extraordinary. I have little interest in domestic drama, in small tales of internal struggle. I want to read and write characters who are larger than life. I certainly don't want to read or write about people who are "just like me." I'm fascinated by those infinitely grander than I will ever be, willing to risk more, grasp more, love more, hate more, whose time and place demands more than you or I can probably imagine having to give... I guess it's my Southern Gothic roots. In non-fiction, I focus on the perceptions of "race" and their vast ramifications.
