Eric Kraft

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1988
  • Latest Book:
    March 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Peter Leroy

1 - Taking Off (Jul-2006)
2 - On the Wing (Aug-2007)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Herb 'n' Lorna

    Herb Piper lives with his clever and vivacious wife, Lorna, in the tranquil, seaside Long Island town of Babbington. Herb sells Studebakers, putters in his basement, fancies himself an inventor, and struggles against his habit of making bad investmen...

  • Little Follies

    Clever, anecdotal, suspenseful, and funny. Anna Shapiro, The New Yorker To read a sample, click Preview below the cover image. Peter Leroy explores one of his earliest memories (his mother's tumble from her lawn chair); probes the root causes of his ...

  • The Little Follies: The Personal History, Adventure, Experiences and Observations of Peter Leroy

    In 1962, as a college sophomore, Eric Kraft fell asleep in the library. Among the books surrounding him, he began to dream...of a nameless boy, sitting on a dilapidated dock in the warm sun of a summer day, playing a game: He was trying to bring ...

  • The Little Follies: The Personal History, Adventure, Experiences & Observations Of Peter Leroy (So Far)

    In 1962, as a college sophomore, Eric Kraft fell asleep in the library. Among the books surrounding him, he began to dream...of a nameless boy, sitting on a dilapidated dock in the warm sun of a summer day, playing a game: He was trying to bring the ...

  • At Home with the Glynns

    In At Home with the Glynns, Peter Leroy again sets off down memory lane through his boyhood Babbington, Long Island. This time Peter tells of his relationship with the remarkable Glynn family: Andy the artist, Rosetta, his wife, and poet, and the en...

  • What a Piece of Work I Am

    " What a Piece of Work I Am] centers on the sultry Ariane, who had been the town bad girl in the 1950s. Baring the sexual secrets and bizarre events of her past . . . Ariane pieces together a wild, fascinating tale based on her erotic history. Peter ...

  • Reservations Recommended

    Reservations Recommended is many things: a satire of the critical mind; a dark commentary on contemporary culture; a story of midlife crisis; a morality play; and a book that matches bleakness against humor with a grace rare among contemporary writer...

  • Leaving Small's Hotel

    With this, his seventh novel, Eric Kraft once again gives readers and critics everywhere a reason to celebrate: Kirkus declared it "one of the most delightful novels of the decade," while Publishers Weekly asked, "Is there a more beguiling writer tod...

  • Inflating a Dog

    Screenplay by Eric Kraft, based on his novel. Peter Leroy struggles to win the affections of the toothsome Patti Fiorenza while keeping his mother’s hopes and his mother’s boat afloat. Ella Leroy dreams of escaping the dreary routine of her 1950s...



  • Passionate Spectator

    In Passionate Spectator, memoirist Peter Leroy and his wife Albertine are living by the skin of their teeth in Manhattan. Casting about for a source of income, Peter purchases a book from a homeless peddler, Creative Self-Promotion for Taxidermist...

  • Taking Off

    Peter Leroy - 1

    To Peter Leroys adult chagrin, his home town of Babbington, a seaside village on Long Island, is being turned into a theme park, centering on the historic day on which he, a fifteen-year-old adventurer, returned after completing 4,000 miles of solo f...

  • On the Wing

    Peter Leroy - 2

    In Taking Off, the first installment of Eric Kraft's beguiling trilogy, Peter Leroy built an aerocycle in his parents' garage, working from designs he found in Impractical Craftsman magazine. Cheered on by the gathered residents of his small Long Isl...

  • Flying

    Critics have compared him to Proust, Pynchon, and Fred Astaire--an artful, slyly intelligent, wildly inventive observer of Americana. Now Eric Kraft has landed an ambitious comedy set both in our present and in an alternative 1950s universe--Flying. ...

  • Do Clams Bite?

    Peter Leroy considers the origins of his childhood pelecypodophobia (the fear of bivalve mollusks), meets the imaginary friend who will remain his best friend for life, memorizes the legends of his ancestors in the Leroy line (including Black Jacques...

  • Life on the Bolotomy

    Peter Leroy recalls a childhood journey of discovery that he made from the mouth of the Bolotomy River to its source, traveling with his best (and imaginary) friend Rodney ???Raskol??? Lodkochnikov. The journey begins with the work of turning a packi...

  • My Mother Takes a Tumble

    Peter Leroy explores his earliest memories, which involve Dudley Beaker, a next-door neighbor with a shady occupation; Eliza Foote, a shapely blonde (a product of his imagination); six kittens and one red wagon; and his mother's tumble from her lawn ...

  • The Fox and the Clam

    Peter Leroy recalls his childhood friend Matthew Barber. Peter and Matthew seem unlikely friends. Matthew finds little to like in life, and his outlook is decidedly blue. Peter finds much to like in life, though nearly everything puzzles him, and he ...

  • The Static of the Spheres

    Peter Leroy recalls his maternal grandfather???s attempt to build a shortwave radio, a project that begins with an article in Impractical Craftsman magazine promising hour after interminable hour of baffling precision work. After many, many hours spe...

  • The Girl with the White Fur Muff

    Peter Leroy recalls the trouble that ensued when a well-meaning teacher appointed him director of Babbington’s annual fourth-grade production of King Lear. Three of his classmates wanted the role of Lear’s loving daughter, Cordelia, and each had ...



  • Take the Long Way Home

    Peter Leroy returns in memory to the fifth grade, where he finds himself gazing at Veronica McCall across the Gulf of Puberty. Remembering Veronica, the hottest little number in Babbington's elementary grades at that time, inevitably leads him to ref...

  • Call Me Larry

    Peter Leroy recalls his childhood affection for the Larry Peters series of adventure books. As a boy, he entered the world of the books so completely that he went from wanting to be Larry Peters to believing, sometimes, that he was. As Larry, he reli...

  • The Young Tars

    Peter Leroy recalls an episode from his grade-school years, an episode that he would really rather forget, one of the dark, gritty bits that one finds at the bottom of the chowder bowl of life. It involves the Young Tars, an organization originally i...

  • Love at First Sight

  • Albertine's Overcoat

    Peter Leroy is in danger of becoming an arrogant, insufferable little egoist. Then something happens that saves him. He falls in love with Albertine Gaudet. That is the end of egoism-and the start of one of literature's great romances. Peter doesn't ...

  • Where Do You Stop?

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    Growing up in the racially mixed town of Babbington, Peter Leroy must balance his father's racist remarks about African Americans with his own experiences as he attempts to hurdle the obstacles life has put in front of him. 15,000 first printing....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Eric Kraft has published 25 books.

Eric Kraft does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Albertine's Overcoat, was published in March 2018.

The first book by Eric Kraft, Herb 'n' Lorna, was published in April 1988.

Yes. Eric Kraft has 1 series.
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