Prof. Pete Rock published the hit novel My Abandonment in 2009.

Prof. Pete Rock published the hit novel My Abandonment in 2009.

Novel Sensation

Movie adaptation of Prof. Pete Rock's book hits theatres this summer.

May 23, 2018

Prof. Pete Rock [creative writing 2001–] will be seeing his name in lights. His novel My Abandonment, about a girl and her father who live in a cave in Forest Park, has been adapted for the screen. Leave No Trace, directed by Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone) and starring Ben Foster, Jeff Kober, and Dale Dickey, in select theaters starting June 29.

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