Gabe Rotter

Who is Gabe Rotter?

Gabe Rotter is an American novelist, author of Simon & Schuster's "Duck Duck Wally" and "The Human Bobby."

Rotter grew up on Long Island, New York, attended Syosset High School, and earned a film degree from the University of Southern California. Rotter began his career as a production assistant and later the writers' assistant on the popular paranormal television show "The X-Files," working under series creator Chris Carter. When the television series ended, Rotter wrote his first novel, Duck Duck Wally, which was published in 2008 by Simon & Schuster. "...pays entertaining dividends in this slapstick send-up of show business in general and hip-hop in particular,” commented a Kirkus Reviews critic. The novel’s protagonist is Wally Moscowitz, a self-described frumpy, chubby Jewish man in his thirties, whose day job is a big secret: he is ghostwriter for the world's most infamous gangsta rapper, Oral B.

A Publishers Weekly reviewer noted that “Rotter’s a talented writer,” while the Kirkus Reviews critic called the book a novel for readers who possess “no aversion to... satire or affinity for political correctness.” Booklist called the book "Clever and funny."

Rotter continued to work for Chris Carter as Director of Development for Carter's Ten Thirteen Productions. In 2010, Rotter published his second novel from Simon & Schuster, titled "The Human Bobby," the story of a doctor who, after a series of strange and tragic events, winds up homeless, and trying to puzzle together the events that lead to his downfall. About the book, Booklist said "An oddly constructed novel, but an oddly endearing one, too, with a protagonist you can’t help rooting for."