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Thomas Dyja

Born: in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Dyja was born and raised on Chicago's Northwest side. He is a third generation Chicagoan.

Biography: Thomas Dyja is an author, bookseller, literary agent, editor and book packager. He stayed in New York after graduating from Columbia University to go into publishing. He still resides in New York today.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; History; Non-Fiction; Other

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: Kelmscottink@gmail.com
Website: http://www.thomasdyja.com/
Thomas Dyja on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=thomas+dyja


Selected Titles

Meet John Trow :
ISBN: 0099449676 OCLC: 51870484

Vintage, London : 2003.

Meet John Trow :
ISBN: 0670030996 OCLC: 48390604

Viking, New York : 2002.

With his career and marriage both deteriorating, Steven Armour joins a group of Civil War reenactors and throws himself into their weekend exercises with zeal, eventually beginning to lose his identity in his embrace of the Civil War role.

  Play for a kingdom
ISBN: 9781441719867 OCLC: 489277767

Blackstone Audio, Inc., [Ashland, Or.] : 2009.

During the Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers lay down their arms to play baseball. The soldiers think they are beating the system--fraternizing with the enemy is forbidden--but in fact the command of one side is using the games to meet a spy in the other's camp. When the soldiers realize this they pick up their arms. A first novel.

Play for a kingdom /
ISBN: 0151002673 OCLC: 36133388

Harcourt Brace, New York : c1997.

During the Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers lay down their arms to play baseball. The soldiers think they are beating the system--fraternizing with the enemy is forbidden--but in fact the command of one side is using the games to meet a spy in the other's camp. When the soldiers realize this they pick up their arms. A first novel.

The moon in our hands /
ISBN: 0786717076 OCLC: 64388334

Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York : 2006, ©2005.

Recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP, Walter White--a lightskinned African-American man who can pass for white--is sent undercover to investigate a lynching, all the while confronted with personal issues of identity. From the author of the award-winning novel Play for a Kingdom comes a masterful story inspired by the early life of Walter White, a dynamic but now all-but-forgotten figure in the history of civil rights. Thetwenty- four-year- old White was recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP. Just weeks after he began, a horrible lynching took place in a small town in Tennessee and White was sent there to pose as a traveling salesman. His mission was to stay as long as it took to pry the secrets out of the town. Dyja paints a complex portrait of shifting identity as White, a blonde, blue-eyed, and very light-skinned African-American, moves back and forth between white and black, working his way into both the good-old-boy network of the town and the besieged African-American community. Forced to rethink his assumptions about what really happened in the town of Sibley Springs the night of the lynching, he struggles to establish guilt and innocence in a foreign landscape, confronting as well his own questions of identity. When another lynching looms, White must decide if he will risk everything to save a black life and the white souls of Sibley Springs.

  The third coast :
ISBN: 9781470843489 OCLC: 825389022

Findaway World, LLC, Solon, Ohio : [2013], ℗2013.

Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America's central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory. Between the end of World War II and 1960, Mies van der Rohe's glass and steel architecture became the face of corporate America, Ray Kroc's McDonald's changed how people eat, Hugh Hefner unveiled Playboy, and the Chess brothers supercharged rock and roll with Chuck Berry. At the University of Chicago, the atom was split and Western civilization was packaged into the Great Books. In luminous prose, Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America.

The third coast :
ISBN: 0143125095 OCLC: 852238349

A cultural history of Chicago at midcentury, with its incredible mix of architects, politicians, musicians, writers, entrepreneurs, and actors who helped shape modern America.

Walter White :
ISBN: 9781566638654 OCLC: 221149913

Ivan R. Dee, Chicago : ©2008.

Thomas Dyja's fascinating and compelling biography of Walter White takes us into the personal and political world of this fair-skinned, blond and blue-eyed, brash and impulsive, stylish and complex man. His story is about one of the few individuals in American history who devoted himself completely to the concept of a color-blind nation, yet lost the delicate balance between ambition and advocacy that had been his trademark. In restoring Walter White to his place in the story of the African-American struggle, Thomas Dyja fills the void between Booker T. Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He also confronts some of the thorniest issues between blacks and whites in America.--Jacket.

 

 

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