"Named a Literary Laureate of San Francisco in 2004, PETER PLATE taught himself to write fiction during eight years spent squatting in abandoned buildings. He is the author of many novels, beginning with Black Wheel of Anger (1990) and continuing through his seven neo-noir ""psychic histories"" of San Francisco, where he still lives and writes today."
“Peter Plate is the bard of San Francisco's jails and residence hotels. Plate's mastery of atmosphere is matched [in Soon the Rest Will Fall] by a remarkable empathy for his characters, whose greatest crimes, inevitably, are perpetrated in their helpless emotional abuse of one another.” –San Francisco Magazine “[Peter Plate is] a master of the omniscient form; he makes his narrative float seamlessly among the characters.” –Olivia Boler, Foreword Magazine