Thomas Dyja

Thomas Dyja
BornBelmont Cragin, Chicago
OccupationWriter
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Notable awardsHeartland Prize (2013)
Casey Award (1997)

Thomas Dyja is an American writer, living in New York City. He has written three novels, a biography of civil rights activist Walter Francis White, and historical books on Chicago and New York City. Play For A Kingdom received the Casey Award, and The Third Coast won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction.