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Gerard Colby (earlier known as Gerard Colby Zilg) is president of the US National Writers Union where he previously held various chair positions. From 1997-2001 he served as 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 his wife, 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 Dennett about the U.S. in the Middle East.

In 2003 he received 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 has appeared on radio and television and lectured at colleges and national conferences.

He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

[edit] References

• Du Pont: Behind The Nylon Curtain. Prentice-Hall, 1974. 600+ pages,by Gerard Colby Zilg,ISBN 0-13-221077-0

• 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 0-06-092723-2

• Into The Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press Prometheus Books, 2002. 392 pages, by Kristina Borjesson as editor, ISBN 1-57392-972-7

[edit] External links

• National Writers Union page
• Thy Will Be Done review