Gerard Colby

Gerard Colby (earlier known as Gerard Colby Zilg) is a former vice-president of the National Writers Union where he is/was quite active by having various chair positions. From 1997-2001 he had the chair of the Vermont section.

He worked on ..

• "Du Pont: Behind The Nylon Curtain" (1974) as the author. The book was the subject of a landmark federal case that won promotional rights for authors. It was re-released as "Du Pont Dynasty" in 1984.

• "Thy Will Be Done, the Conquest of the Amazon" (1995) as co-author with Charlotte Dennett.

• "Into The Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press" (2002) as collaborator. The book is an anthology on the current state of investigative journalism in the US and was a Amazon.com top ten best seller.

Currently (2003) he is working on a book with Ms. Dennett about the U.S. in the Middle East.

In 2003 he got the "National Press Club's Arthur Rouse Award for Press Criticism" for the book "Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (Prometheus Books, 2002)" that was edited by the co-award winner Kristina Borjesson.

Colby was on radio and television and lectured at colleges and national conferences.

He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

References

• "Du Pont: Behind The Nylon Curtain". Prentice-Hall, 1974. 600+ pages,by Gerard Colby Zilg,ISBN 0-1322-1077-0

• "Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain". Secaucus NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1984. 968 pages,by Gerard Colby,ISBN 0-8184-0352-7

• "Thy Will Be Done, the Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil" HarperCollins, 1995, Hardcover. 960 pages, by Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, ISBN 0-06-016764-5; HarperCollins: Janice Temple, 1996, Paperback. 1008 pages, ISBN 0-0609-2723-2

• "Into The Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press" Prometheus Books, 2002. 392 pages, by Kristina Borjesson as editor, ISBN 1-5739-2972-7

External links

• National Writers Union page
• "Thy Will Be Done" review