As an author, Dale Peck is most famous for his first book, Martin and John , a post-modern gay bildungsroman, although he has actually written quite a few things by now: The Law of Enclosures , Now It's Time to Say Goodbye , What We Lost , as well as a book of critical essays called Hatchet Jobs and a children's novel that just came out last year called Drift House. Though I was most excited about the story he *didn't* get to write--apparently he was asked to write an X-men novel on Magneto's backstory, but they wanted to emphasize the Holocaust backstory and he would only go so far with it, since he thought it was exploitative, so they withdrew the offer.

He has a wikipedia entry and everything. And I'm acknowledged in one of his books (under my real name), so I guess that makes me famous-by-association.