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.

This site offers Dutton’s coverage of sports  and life.

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