January 25, 1961 - November 26, 2023

Timothy Alan Dorsey (January 25, 1961 – November 26, 2023) was an American novelist.[1] He is known for a series starring Serge A. Storms, a mentally disturbed vigilante antihero who rampages across Florida, enforcing his own moral code against a variety of low-life criminals.

Tim Dorsey was born in Carmel, Indiana, and moved to Florida with his mother at the age of 1. He grew up in Riviera Beach, a small town in Palm Beach County just north of West Palm Beach. Dorsey graduated from Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua N.H, in 1979.[2]

Dorsey attended Auburn University, where he became the editor of The Auburn Plainsman, the student newspaper; he wrote about racism while at Auburn.[3] Dorsey graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor's degree in Transportation. After graduation, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and served as a police reporter for a local newspaper. In 1987, Dorsey relocated to Tampa, Florida, and became a reporter for The Tampa Tribune. Until he resigned from the paper in 1999 to write full-time, he worked variously as political reporter, correspondent in the Tribune's Tallahassee bureau, copy desk editor, and, finally, night metro editor and news coordinator.

Dorsey lived in Tampa with his wife and two daughters and was a Tampa Bay Rays fan. He also still considered himself a Boston Red Sox fan, cultivated while attending Bishop Guertin High School while living in New Hampshire as a teen.[4]

Dorsey died in Islamorada, Florida, on November 26, 2023, at the age of 62.[5]

References  - Wikipedia

1. Risen, Clay (December 2, 2023). "Tim Dorsey, Who Turned Florida's Quirks Into Comic Gold, Dies at 62". The New York Times. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
2. Shaw, A. (Spring 2012). Gunfights and Florida History: An Interview with Tim Dorsey. Saw Palm, 6, 25-30. Retrieved from http://www.sawpalm.org/uploads/6/6/2/8/6628902/saw_palm_-_volume_6_-_2012.pdf on 2 February 2022.
3. Washington, Jesse (2015-02-12). "Up From Leeds". ESPN.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-13. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
4. interview "In the footsteps of subversives" by Anna Mundow, Boston Globe February 25, 2007.
5. "Tim Dorsey, who blended crime, comedy in Florida-based novels, dead at 62". Boston25 News. 28 November 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
6. "Tim Dorsey". www.timdorsey.com.