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Dalton Lyle

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Houston, The United States

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https://www.daltonlyle.com

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Young Adult, Humor and Comedy, Gay and Lesbian

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David Sedaris, Helen Fielding, John Kennedy Toole, Roald Dahl, Louis S ...more

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February 2026

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Dalton Lyle is a Texan who writes stories with high-octane absurdism, featuring hapless characters who acquire serious enlightenment in an unenlightened, unserious world. He's trekked across the Gobi desert on an excessively flatulent camel, tumbled dramatically down a hill at the Great Wall of China, been mugged by Tibetan macaques on a mountain, and seen his life flash before his eyes in Palermo traffic. Before focusing on writing professionally, he toiled in the North American gulag that is retail and the Kafkaesque hell that is teaching. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and his master’s from the University of Houston. ...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 31 ratings · 27 reviews · 1 distinct work • Similar authors

Wade & Felix Forever

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Dalton Lyle made a comment in the group Addicted to YA — July 2026- Lesser Known Author topic " I'm going to shamelessly plug my book Wade & Felix Forever, which will be available starting June 9th. It's about a small-town Texas tornado survivor ...more "
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