Tom Dyja, Author, Thomas Dyja, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-15-100267-2
In the blood-soaked woods of the Wilderness in Virginia in 1864, two small groups of Civil War soldiers engage in a game of death and honor. A Yankee infantry company, the Brooklyn 14th, on picket duty in the woods, takes a break from the horrors of
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Thomas Dyja, Author . Ivan R. Dee $26 (212p) ISBN 978-1-56663-766-4
Once known as “Mr. NAACP,” Walter White and his contributions to African-American history have been lost in the margins of memory. Dyja (The Moon in Our Hands
) offers a straightforward biography of the light-skinned, blue-eyed, blond-hai
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Thomas Dyja. Penguin Press, $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59420-432-6
Novelist and Chicago native Dyja (Play for a Kingdom) delivers a magisterial narrative of mid-20th century Chicago, once America’s “primary meeting place, market, workshop and lab.” Dyja covers the period from the 1930s through the 1950s, when...
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Thomas Dyja. Simon & Schuster, $30 (544p) ISBN 978-1-9821-4978-9
Modern Gotham has recovered its glitter, but lost its moral compass and its soul, according to this kaleidoscopic history. Novelist and urban historian Dyja (The Third Coast) surveys New York’s 35 years from near bankruptcy in the 1970s through...
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Thomas Dyja, Author, Tom Dyja, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1505-3
Dyja (Meet John Trow
; Play for a Kingdom
) turns his sights on rural Tennessee in 1918, and specifically on the fictional town of Sibley Springs, where "they lynched some colored." The man who was lynched, "a farmer,... had been strung...
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