About Jeff Kerr
I write books and screenplays. I aim to entertain.
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Among my favorite authors are Elmore Leonard, John LeCarre,
Michael Connelly, and Craig Johnson.
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I am fortunate to have a patient, supportive wife.
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Our two children are grown. I am quite proud of them.
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My dog Maggie is very cute, which is a good thing,
given all the rugs she has destroyed.
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Chocolate goes with everything except beer.
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When our neighborhood HEB opened, I was the very first customer. I bought a gallon of milk. Yes, they made me pay.
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I love the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, but had to read the book to understand the ending.
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I will write until I die and might not quit even then.
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Photo by Steve Houston
Background photo by Rene Böhmer on Unsplash
Jeff Kerr wasn’t born in Texas but says “y’all” like a native. He wrote a poem in the third grade that earned him a school prize, a book about the American flag. You’d think that would have inspired him to become a writer but that came later.
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Jeff wrote and published his first book twenty years ago. He hadn’t planned on doing so until one night at the supper table his son interrupted a discourse about local history by saying, “Enough, Dad! Write a book.” Choosing to interpret a teenager’s flip remark as sage advice, he did. Six books later, he calls himself an author. So there.
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When Jeff isn’t writing you can find him floating a Texas river or battling cedar on his small slice of Hill Country land. When he is writing, he stays busy by creating pulse-pounding crime thrillers that, according to one reader, “move along like a runaway locomotive.” Thank you, son.
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