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Wayne Klatt

Born: 1940 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Wayne is a life long Chicagoan.

Biography: Wayne Klatt graduated from Lane Technical High School and the University of Illinois, where his major was communications (newspaper writing, advertising, radio-TV production) and my minors were history and psychology. He was a reporter and editor at the former City News Bureau/City News Service from 1962 ro 2005, when it folded. His interests are in the criminal justice system, history, movies, classical music and opera, and European literature. In addition to his own writing, he helps others write factual manuscripts.


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

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: klatt_wayne@yahoo.com
Wayne Klatt on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=wayne+klatt


Selected Titles

Chicago journalism :
ISBN: 078644181X OCLC: 277136414

McFarland & Co., Jefferson, N.C. : ©2009.

"This history of Chicago journalism is framed against the larger landscape of American media and the ways in which technology and mergers have altered news gathering and presenting, and it considers daily operations at the newspapers and broadcast stations to demonstrate how they have changed with the times"--Provided by publisher.

Freed to kill :
ISBN: 0380715465 OCLC: 25236649

Avon Books, New York : ©1992.

King of the Gold Coast :
ISBN: 1609493206 OCLC: 727610584

History Press, Charleston, SC : 2011.

 

 

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