Tim Dorsey Obituary – Cause of Death: Florida author Tim Dorsey dies at 62.
American novelist known for a series starring Serge A. Storms, Tim Dorsey died in Islamorada, Florida on Sunday, November 26, 2023, at the age of 62.
Dorsey wrote 26 bestselling novels set in his beloved Florida. He was known for a series starring Serge A. Storms, a mentally disturbed vigilante antihero who rampages across Florida enforcing his own moral code against a variety of low-life criminals.
Dorsey was born in Carmel, Indiana and was taken to Florida by his mother at the age of 1. He grew up in Riviera Beach, a small town in Palm Beach County just north of West Palm Beach. He graduated from Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua N.H, in 1979.
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Dorsey attended Auburn University, where he became the editor of The Auburn Plainsman, the student newspaper; he wrote about racism while at Auburn. Dorsey graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor’s degree in Transportation. After graduation, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and served as a police reporter for a local newspaper. In 1987, Dorsey relocated to Tampa, Florida, and became a reporter for The Tampa Tribune. Until he resigned from the paper in 1999 to write full-time, he worked variously as political reporter, correspondent in the Tribune’s Tallahassee bureau, copy desk editor, and, finally, night metro editor and news coordinator.
Dorsey lived in Tampa with his wife and two daughters. He was a Boston Red Sox fan, due to his mother and the nuns and brothers from Bishop Guertin High School he attended as a child being from New Hampshire. He was also a Tampa Bay Rays fan from living in the same city.
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