Pierre Ouellette

Career

Music When Ouellette was a teenager and living in Portland, Oregon, he was a guitarist in many local bands. He was briefly a member of Paul Revere & the Raiders in 1963, and in 1964, was a founding member of Don and the Goodtimes, performing with them until late 1965, when he was replaced by Jim Valley; while in The Goodtimes, Ouellette played on the bands first five singles. In 1979, he was a founding member of The Sludge Bros.

Writing He wrote the science fiction thrillers The Deus Machine (Villard Books, 1994) and The Third Pandemic (Pocket Books, 1996). Writing under the name of Pierre Davis, his third novel A Breed Apart was published in 2009 by Bantam-Dell. A fourth book, entitled Origin Unknown was published in July 2011. His fifth book, titled The Forever Man, was published in January 2014 by Alibi Books, a Random House imprint. His latest novel, Bakersfield, a crime story set in mid-1950s California, was due out in September 2018 from Jorvik Press. In 2000, Ouellette sold the advertising and PR agency he co-founded.

Personal life Ouellette lives in Portland, Oregon.