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Donald Zochert

Born: May 3, 1938 in Oak Park, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Zochert was born and raised in Illinois. He currently resides in the Western Suburbs of Chicago.

Biography: Donald Zochert began his career with United Press International as a reporter and went on to work for the Chicago Daily News until 1978 when he became a freelance writer full time. In 1975, he edited the book, ''Walking in America''.


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

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

E-Mail: dzochert@comcast.net


Selected Titles

Another weeping woman
ISBN: 0893406023 OCLC: 9281752

J. Curley, South Yarmouth, Ma. : [1983], ©1980.

Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
ISBN: 0809281740 OCLC: 1959445

H. Regnery Co., Chicago : ©1976.

Draws on documented records and Mrs. Wilder's unpublished memoirs to picture the people, places, and events that informed her ninety years and inspired her well-beloved Little House books

Murder in the Hellfire Club
ISBN: 0030224411 OCLC:

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1978

The author's first mystery, commended for its historical accuracy - a variation of the classic "locked room" mystery featuring Benjamin Franklin and set in London in 1757.

Yellow Dogs
ISBN: 0871132540 OCLC: New York :

Atlantic Monthly Pr New York : 1989

Daniel Hansen's refusal to fight in the Great War raises the wrath of a patriotic Kansas community and brings imprisonment upon himself and violence upon his family

 

 

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