Robert Plunket

Robert Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas in 1945, and raised in Havana and Mexico City. After an unsuccessful stint as an actor in New York, he moved to Sarasota, Florida, where he became Mr. Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine.  He is now retired and has “found peace and contentment at a lovely trailer park in Florida.” New Directions also publishes his novel My Search for Warren Harding, described by Danzy Senna in the foreword as “one of the best, and most invigorating books I’d read in years, and certainly the funniest.”

Robert Plunket

Robert Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas in 1945, and raised in Havana and Mexico City. After an unsuccessful stint as an actor in New York, he moved to Sarasota, Florida, where he became Mr. Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine.  He is now retired and has “found peace and contentment at a lovely trailer park in Florida.” New Directions also publishes his novel My Search for Warren Harding, described by Danzy Senna in the foreword as “one of the best, and most invigorating books I’d read in years, and certainly the funniest.”

Books by Robert Plunket

  • My Search for Warren Harding

    Robert Plunket, Danzy Senna

    Paperback, 2023

    An exhilarating, brutal, comedic masterpiece—an American classic that will “leave you so giddy you’ll go and kick sand in somebody’s face” (The Houston Post)
  • My Search for Warren Harding

    Robert Plunket, Danzy Senna

    E Book

    An exhilarating, brutal, comedic masterpiece—an American classic that will “leave you so giddy you’ll go and kick sand in somebody’s face” (The Houston Post)
  • Love Junkie

    Robert Plunket

    Paperback, 2024

    The “diabolically clever, shamelessly brass-balled, wrenchingly funny” (NY Native) story of love, lust, and the agony of romantic disillusionment.
  • Love Junkie

    Robert Plunket

    E Book

    The “diabolically clever, shamelessly brass-balled, wrenchingly funny” (NY Native) story of love, lust, and the agony of romantic disillusionment.