- The brilliant novel from the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay". Grady Tripp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while working on his 2,000 page masterpiece, "Wonder Boys". When his rumbustious editor and friend, Terry Crabtree, arrives in town, a chaotic weekend follows - involving a tuba, a dead dog, Top pageMarilyn Monroe"s ermine-lined jacket and a squashed boa constrictor.