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Lee Durkee

Biography

Lee Durkee

Lee Durkee is the author of the novel RIDES OF THE MIDWAY. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the Sun, Best of the Oxford American, Zoetrope: All Story, Tin House, New England Review and Mississippi Noir. In 2021 Scribner will publish his memoir STALKING SHAKESPEARE, which chronicles his decade-long obsession with trying to find lost portraits of William Shakespeare. A former cab driver, he lives in North Mississippi. THE LAST TAXI DRIVER is his first novel in 20 years.

Lee Durkee

Books by Lee Durkee

by Lee Durkee - Fiction, Humor

Lee Durkee takes readers on a high-stakes cab ride through an unforgettable shift. Meet Lou --- a lapsed novelist, struggling Buddhist and UFO fan --- who drives for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a north Mississippi college town. With Uber moving into town and his way of life vanishing, his girlfriend moving out, and his archenemy dispatcher suddenly returning to town on the lam, Lou must finish his bedlam shift by aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his disintegrating Town Car. Lou is forced to decide how much he can take as a driver, and if keeping his job is worth madness and heartbreak.