NAME Dillinger Gang bank robber Harry Pierpont.
AGE 102
MUSTWORTHINESS Seventy years after he died in the Indiana
electric chair, the Gang's leader roared back to life in James
Carlos Blake's gritty, sexy eighth novel. ''Writing is a great way
to express things without having to do them,'' says Blake, 57, who
focuses his books almost exclusively on outlaws. ''I have a friend
who said, 'Blake, it's a good thing you write about people who go
out and shoot people or you'd be out shooting people.'''
ON HIS
MUST LIST Garrison Keillor: ''He's a lot darker than people
realize. I don't know how he's gotten away with this image as
Midwestern bumpkin for so long.''
WORST JOB ''I've been a snake
catcher, a Volkswagen mechanic, and a plumbing apprentice, but
the worst was teaching college.''
NEXT For Harry, not much; for
Blake, a novel about world middleweight champion Stanley Ketchel,
who was murdered in 1910 at age 24.
The Must List 2004
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